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Notes abbreviations BPL Boston Public Library, Anti-Slavery Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Division. EN Edizione Nazionale: Scritti editi ed inediti di Giuseppe Mazzini. Vols. 1–106. Edited by Mario Menghini. Imola: Galeati, 1906–43. GMD Scrittori politici dell’Ottocento. Vol. 1, Giuseppe Mazzini e i Democratici. Edited by Franco Della Peruta. Milan: Feltrinelli, 1966. HL Houghton Library, Harvard University. GI La Giovine Italia. Vols. 1–6. Edited by Mario Menghini. Rome: Società editrice Dante Alighieri, 1902–25. LWLG The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Vols. 1–6. Edited by Walter M. Merrill and Louis Ruchames. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971–81. MHS Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. SEI Scritti editi ed inediti di Giuseppe Mazzini. Vols. 1–18. Edited by Giuseppe Mazzini and Aurelio Saffi. Bologna-Milan: G. Daelli, 1861–91. WLGFS William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery: Selections from “The Liberator.” Edited by William E. Cain. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1995. preface 1. On these issues, see Don H. Doyle, Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003); Bruce Levine, Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War, 2nd ed. (New York: Hill & Wang, 2005); and Derek Beales and Eugenio F. Biagini, The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy (London: Longman, 2002). 2. William Lloyd Garrison, introduction to Joseph Mazzini: His Life, Writings, and Political Principles, ed. Emily Ashurst Venturi (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1872), vii. 3. On Garrison’s espousal of evangelical Christianity and abolitionism, see particularly 200 Notes to Pages ix–4 James B. Stewart, William Lloyd Garrison and the Challenge of Emancipation (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1992), 33–37. On the “religious” dimension of Mazzini’s nationalism, see especially Simon Levi Sullam, “Dio e il popolo: La rivoluzione religiosa di Giuseppe Mazzini,” in Storia d’Italia, annali 22, Il Risorgimento, ed. Alberto M. Banti and Paul Ginsborg (Turin: Einaudi, 2007), 401–422. 4. See William E. Cain, “Introduction: William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery ,” in WLGFS, 4–12; and Salvo Mastellone, Il progetto politico di Mazzini (Italia-Europa) (Florence : Olschki, 1994), 41–54. 5. On the meeting between Garrison and Mazzini, see chapter 5. 6. Aida Audeh and Nick Havely, Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nationality, Identity, and Appropriation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 290; Garrison, introduction to Mazzini: His Life, vii. According to Caleb McDaniel, “In that single, telling line [We cherished the same hostility to every form of tyranny], Garrison opened a revealing window onto the world he had known for fifty years: a world in which American abolitionists were connected to a transatlantic host of reformers as diverse as Thompson, Follen, Chesson, Mazzini, and Mill.” W. Caleb McDaniel, The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery: Garrisonian Abolitionists and Transatlantic Reform (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013), 3. 7. John Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (New York: Twelve, 2008), xii. For another seminal parallel biography with the same subjects, see James Oakes, The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (New York: Norton, 2007). 8. For the wider context, see especially C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004); and Enrico Dal Lago, American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2012). introduction: garrisonian abolitionism, mazzinian democr atic nationalism, and tr ansnational comparisons 1. See, above all, Caleb McDaniel’s recent seminal study Problem of Democracy. 2. Dale Tomich and Michael Zeuske, “Introduction: The Second Slavery: Mass Slavery, World-Economy, and Comparative Microhistories,” Review 31, no. 2 (2008): 91–92. See also Dale Tomich, Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and the World Economy (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 56–71; and Seymour Drescher, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). 3. Stefan Berger, “Germany: Ethnic Nationalism par Excellence?” in What Is a Nation? Europe , 1789–1914, ed. Timothy Bancroft and Mark Hewitson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 43. See also Robin Blackburn, The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation, and Human Rights (London: Verso, 2011); and Stefan Berger, “National Movements,” in A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789–1914, ed. Stefan Berger (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 178–192. 4. On general parallels and connection between nineteenth-century U.S. abolitionism and Italian democratic nationalism, see Enrico Dal Lago, “Radicalism and Nationalism: Northern ‘Liberators’ and Southern Laborers in...
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