A black and white wood engraving print of an abolitionist meeting in Tremont Temple in Boston, MA on December 3, 1860. Frederick Douglass, a Black man, wears long pants, a waistcoat, and a long coat on the stage in the center of the image. He stands with one hand on his hip and the other out-raised, his mouth open as he speaks back to an unruly crowd at the lower left and in the background around the stage. Officers attempt to quell the crowd in the bottom center of the image. A white man on stage steps towards Douglass and has his hand on Douglass's shoulder. Other white men stand on stage looking at the crowd. On the far right midground, a white man with a beard in a top hat, long pants, and knee-length coat has his left hand in his pocket and his right hand up. In the upper left of the image, three women in bonnets fight on a jutting balcony.

Volume 94.1: March 2021

The New England Quarterly announces the publication of Volume 94.1: March 2021.

—  Volume 94, Issue 1: March 2021  —

Editorial
by Jonathan M. Chu

Anti-Abolitionism in New Engalnd

The “Abolition Riot” Redux: Voices, Processes
by Lindsay Campbell

“This Most Atrocious Crusade Against Personal Freedom”: Anti-abolitionist Violence in Boston on the Eve of War
by Patrick T.J. Browne

“Where the great serpent of Slavery … basks himself all summer long”: Antebellum Newport and the South
by Richard C. Rohrs

Essay

Which Ethics for Essex? Elizabeth Gaskell, Salem Witchcraft, and the Problem of Forgiveness
by Michael Everton

New Voices

The Never-Chosen: Samson Occom, the New Divinity, and Indigenous Self-Determination
by Ryan Carr

Book Reviews

Shaker Vision: Seeing Beauty in Early America. By Joseph Manca.
Review by Robert P. Emlen

Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America. By Joe William Trotter Jr.
Review by Sam Sommers

Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson. By Marianne Noble.
Review by Timothy Matovina

Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Review by John W. Crowley

Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys. By Vincent DiGirolamo.
Review by James Schmidt

Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age. By Lizabeth Cohen.
Review by Clayton Howard

City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. By Abram C. Van Engen.
Review by Patricia Roylance

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