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Seeking the One Great Remedy : Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform, Hardback Book

Seeking the One Great Remedy : Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform Hardback

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A radical abolitionist and early feminist, Francis George Shaw (1809–1882) was a prominent figure in American reform and intellectual circles for five decades.

He rejected capitalism in favor of a popular utopian socialist movement; during the Civil War and Reconstruction, he applied his radical principles to the Northern war effort and to freedmen’s organizations. A partnership with Henry George in the late 1870s provided an international audience for Shaw’s alternative vision of society.

Seeking the One Great Remedy is the biography of this remarkable and influential man.

In compelling detail, author Lorien Foote depicts the many aspects and exploits of the Shaw family.

Their activities provide a perspective on the course of American reform that calls into question previous interpretations of the reform movement of this period. Francis George Shaw is perhaps best known as the father of Robert Gould Shaw, subject of the movie Glory.

Francis and his wife, Sarah Blake Shaw, achieved considerable notoriety for their activities, including their effort to shape public opinion during the Civil War.

Turning the tragic death of their son into a public relations and propaganda triumph, they altered Northern opinion about the war and shaped a historical perception of the famous Massachusetts Fifty-fourth that continues today. Seeking the One Great Remedy argues that social radicalism was pervasive among elite reformers before and after the Civil War and finds in the dramatic story of Francis George Shaw a model of that cause.

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