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Article: The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism.(Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism. By Robert William Fogel. Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. 383 pp. n.p.
Robert Fogel's Without Consent or Contract attributed the demise of American slavery not to its diseconomy but to a religiously-inspired vision that made slavery morally insupportable. This vision was generated by the Second Great Awakening which idealized the goal of equality of opportunity. While working with Stanley Engerman on Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974), he began to appreciate the power that religious enthusiasm has exerted in American politics in promoting that ...