“A Yet More Terrible and More Deeply Complicated Problem”: Walt Whitman, Race, Reconstruction, and American Democracy
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DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajy020
Abstract: In March 1888, eleven years after the end of Reconstruction, Walt Whitman’s disciples Horace Traubel and Richard Maurice Bucke left Camden, New Jersey, where Whitman then lived, and traveled as the poet’s emissaries to visit… read more here.
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