Cover: The Northampton Community, 1st Edition by Christopher Clark

The Northampton Community

First  Edition©2021  Christopher Clark

About

Table of Contents

Central Question

Learning Objective

Historical Background

Timeline

PRIMARY SOURCES

Northampton Association of Education and Industry, Constitution and By-Laws, April 1842

James A. Stetson to Dolly W. Stetson, February 1843

A Visitor Describes the Northampton Community, October 1843

An Opposing View of the Northampton Community, October 1843

Dolly W. Stetson and Almira Stetson to James A. Stetson, April 1844

Samuel L. Hill’s Recollections of the Northampton Association, 1867

Frederick Douglass, "What I Found at the Northampton Association," c. 1890s

Project Questions

Additional Assignments

Additional Resources for Research

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Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (1990). His other publications include The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association (1995) and Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil War (2006), together with articles on rural history and the social roots of American economic development. He has also been the corecipient of the Cadbury Schweppes Prize for innovative teaching in the humanities.