Margaret Abruzzo
Assistant
Professor
History Department
University of Alabama
Office: 236 ten Hoor
Phone: 8-1884
Mail: 202 ten Hoor Box 870212
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0212
Current Projects:
Book manuscript: “Debating Cruelty: Slavery, Humanitarianism, and
American Moral Thought,” under contract at The Johns Hopkins University
Press
Essay manuscript: “The Cruelty of Slavery, The Cruelty of
Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and Humaneness in the Early Republic”
Recent Articles:
“Apologetics of Harmony: Mathew Carey and the Rhetoric of
Religious Liberty,” forthcoming, Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography 134, no. 1 (January 2010):
5-30.
“‘A Humane Master—An Oblidging Neighbor—A True Philanthropist’:
Slavery, Cruelty, and Moral Philosophy,” Princeton University Library Chronicle
66, no. 3 (Spring 2005*): 492-511. [the article was written in 2009 and
will appear in 2010]
Recent Courses:
American Civilization to 1865
American Civilization to 1865 (Honors)
Morality and Social Change in American History
American Thought before 1860
American Thought since 1860
American Religious History before 1860
Graduate: Literature of American History
Previous Courses:
Spring 2006: British and American Intellectual History, Coleridge
to
William James
(History
93656),
co-taught
with James Turner
History
Links
You may e-mail me at mabruzzo@ua.edu
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