This essay charts how Ralph Waldo Emerson and Wendell Phillips found common ground in militant abolitionism through a reimagination of their Puritan heritage. It argues that in embracing their ancestors as Cromwellian spiritual warriors, they depart from usual “concepts of Puritan ancestry” and offer a way to heed calls for new literary histories.

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