Abstract
This narrative about Charles Francis Adams Jr. sheds light on the intersections among manhood, race, failure, and self-making in the Civil War era. Adams's obsession with the plight of blacks was entangled with his own confusion about white men's control over their destinies-that is, about who properly qualified for membership in a “republic of ‘self-made men.’”
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© 2008 by The New England Quarterly
2008
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