reformation of 1858.” It did not. Stowe, along with many others, thought that revivalism had taken too sharp a turn toward the purely personal. The question of private salvation seemed divorced from any degree of public responsibility. Stowe contended that all the talk of conversion left unclear just what one was being converted to: “Converted into a man who defends slavery—converted into one who dares not testify against a profitable wickedness—converted into a man whose religion never goes into