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Ralph Waldo Emerson Nationalist Transcendentalist Urged Unique American

Front Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Back He was a nationalist transcendentalist who urged for a unique American culture.  He argued for self-reliance, independent thinking, and the primacy of spiritual matters.  He was anti-slavery.

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