An Emanicipation of The Mind : Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.

Matthew Stewart's previous work of philosophical history, NATURE'S GOD, argued against the common wisdom that America's founders were "good Christians," and he convincingly showed the Revolution would not have come about without a healthy dose of Spinozan atheism