Cover
Title
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue America’s 1848: Republican Spirits in Revolt
Part I. The Soul of a Republic
1. Free Democrats to the Republicans: Radical Spiritualists and the Antislavery Insurgency
2. The Mystical Union: The Republican Medium of the National Destiny
3. Father Abraham: President Lincoln and the Spirit of the Union
Part II. The Promise of a Republic
4. Liberty: Toward a Rational Spirit of Freedom
5. Equality: Race and Gender
6. Fraternity: Reconstructing a Movement and the Nation
Epilogue Long Shadows: The Legacies of Civil War–Era Spiritualism
Notes
Index