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Item Haiti's Usable Past: Violence, Anglophilia, and Antebellum American Abolitionists(2003) McDaniel, W. CalebItem His Brothers' Keeper: John Brown, Moral Stewardship, and Interracial Abolitionism(Slavery and Abolition, 2011-03)Recent biographies of abolitionist John Brown emphasize his uniqueness and cast him as an anomalous figure in the antislavery movement. This article, however, makes the case for Brown’s representativeness by connecting his career to his formative years in northeastern Ohio, a geographical and cultural context that shaped Brown’s lifelong image of himself as an advisor and manager of wilderness communities. That self-image made Brown similar to white ‘moral stewards’ in many reform movements. Even Brown’s interracial relationships, though difficult to interpret because of sparse documentary evidence, were shaped partly by the culture of moral stewardship in which Brown’s career began.Item "Our Country is the World": American Abolitionists, Louis Kossuth, and Philanthropic Revolutions(2004) McDaniel, W. CalebItem Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Nationalists, and the Coming of the Civil War(2006) McDaniel, W. CalebItem Spreading the News about Hydropathy: How Did Americans Learn to Stop Worrying and Trust the Water Cure?(7/25/2012) McDaniel, W. CalebItem What Counts as Radical Abolitionism? A Reconsideration of Recent Scholarship(2009) McDaniel, W. Caleb