Ralph Waldo Emerson would really hate your Twitter feed
For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism
by Peter Wirzbicki
Peter Wirzbicki is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery (2021). He lives in New Jersey.
Written by Peter Wirzbicki