HIST 1377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Solitary Confinement, Protestantism, Manual Labour
Document Summary
The great network of institutions and charitable services for handicapped individuals that developed during the prewar years was known as the benevolent empire. The second great awakening combined: reform movements, protestant revivalism. Solitary confinement was meant to give prisoners opportunities to meditate on their wrongdoings and develop penitence . Both perfectionists and shakers redefined traditional gender roles. Walt whitman"s poetry helped make individualism one of the defining ideas of antebellum america. Uncle tom"s cabin gained national popularity in the mid-nineteenth century by being produced in: novels, theatrical production. The nineteenth century protestant revivalist movement, known as the second great awakening, was based on the idea that everyone was capable of salvation and spiritual rebirth. William garrison"s philosophy: believed the antidote to slavery was full american citizenshiop for all slaves, believed abolitionists should view slavery from the slaves point of view. James cooper wrote the 1841 novel the deerslayer.