Unitarian philanthropy and cultural hegemony in comparative perspective: Manchester and Boston, 1827-1848.
From: Journal of Social History
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Date: 3/22/1993
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Author: Wach, Howard M.
In the summer of 1816, Reverend Joseph Tuckerman, pastor to a small Unitarian congregation in Chelsea, Massachusetts, journeyed to England and formed a set of lasting impressions about urban life and economic change. London's beggars and destitute children unnerved him, but greater shocks awaited in England's industrializing regions. As he traveled northward his journal recorded a steadily mounting sense of fear and loathing. In Birmingham's brass foundries and china workshops he found ...
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