Share 'Excerpt on Abolitionists from "The Metaphysical Club" by Louis Menand.'

I excerpt this passage from pages 12-15 to show the similarities and diffs with many current neo-anabaptist point of views. Abolitionism arose out of the Second Great Awakening, the evangelical revival that swept through New England and then uptstate New York between 1800 and 1840, and that also spawned temperance, women's rights, and other social reform movements, along with a number of utopian…