Lincoln's Gadfly--Adam Gurowski

Fischer, LeRoy H.

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“…In discussing the history of slavery, the Polish born abolitionist Adam Gurowski wrote that the apologists of slavery distorted the bible, specifically the laws of Moses for their own purposes: ‘Neither in the Mosaic record, therefore, nor the native sense of morality, still less in science, can any support be found for the fallacies propounded by the apostles of American slavery.’ (De Gurowski, 1860, p. 61, Fisher, 1949, Walicki, 1979). Gurowski wrote that science freed the mind and liberated it.…”

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Science and the ‘emancipation of the mind’: dreams, the mind, and slavery

Smith

Driggers

2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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SummaryDreams were a subject of interest to philosophers thinking about the connection between the mind and the body in the nineteenth century. Many scholars have pointed out that the mind and the body were intimately linked and affected each other. Although science was on its way to becoming more technical and numbers focused in its investigatory practices, medical students and other physician‐philosophers investigated the nature of sleep and dreams. Medical students and advanced researchers speculated on the nature of consciousness and mused on where the mind travels to during the sleep processes. Other romantic figures like Dr Polydori speculated on the nature of sleep walking in their medical dissertations. Dreams also had a powerful moral and motivational component, as dreams and activities in dreams, drove people like Benjamin Rush to embrace abolition. Other promoters of abolition used the nature of dreams to discusses the dreadfulness and suffering of slavery.

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Science and the ‘emancipation of the mind’: dreams, the mind, and slavery

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Driggers

2023

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…A similar contrast between the United States and Europe impressed the Polish political writer Adam Gurowski (1805‐1866), who settled as an exile in America in 1849 and became a prominent commentator on public affairs (Fischer ). Gurowski used the term “capital” to denote a single city dominating the rest of its country.…”

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Urban Primacy before Mark Jefferson

Meyer

2019

Geographical Review

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The phenomenon of urban primacy has been much studied in the social sciences since Mark Jefferson introduced the term in 1939. It is less well recognized that many European and American writers of stature from the late seventeenth century onward had discussed the same phenomenon under other names, often that of a "capital" or its cognates in other languages. Their work attests to the wide currency that the concept enjoyed and offered many important suggestions regarding urban primacy's causes and consequences. Jefferson nonetheless remains a central figure in the history of the idea for having inaugurated the coordinated academic study of the topic.

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Lincoln's Gadfly--Adam Gurowski

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Science and the ‘emancipation of the mind’: dreams, the mind, and slavery

Science and the ‘emancipation of the mind’: dreams, the mind, and slavery

Urban Primacy before Mark Jefferson

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