| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
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Cornell paperbacks |
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Cornell paperbacks.
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| Contents |
On their own terms : a historiographical essay / by Nancy A. Hewitt -- Abolition's conservative sisters : the ladies' New York City anti-slavery societies, 1834-1840 / by Amy Swerdlow -- The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and the limits of gender politics / by Debra Gold Hansen -- Priorities and power : the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society / Jean R. Soderlund -- The world the agitators made : the counterculture of agitation in urban Philadelphia / by Emma Jones Lapsansky -- "You have talents--only cultivate them" : Philadelphia's Black Female literary societies and the abolitionist crusade / by Julie Winch -- Benevolence and antislavery activity among African American women in New York and Boston, 1820-1840 / Anne M. Boylan -- Difference, slavery and memory : Sojourner Truth in feminist abolitionism / by Nell Irvin Painter -- The female antislavery movement / by Carolyn Williams -- Let your names be enrolled" / by Deborah Bingham Van Brockhoven -- Graphic discord / by Phillip Lapsansky -- Abbey Kelley and the process of liberation / by Keith Melder -- "A good work among the people" / by Lee Chambers-Schiller -- By moral force alone : the antislavery women and nonresistance / by Margaret Hope Bacon -- Women who speak for an entire nation" / by Kathryn Kish Sklar |
| Summary |
A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the "antislavery females" included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing fundraising fairs, writing pamphlets and giftbooks, circulating petitions, even speaking before "promiscuous" audiences including men and women-the antislavery women energetically created a diverse and dynamic political culture. A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on the principal female antislavery societies, discussions of black women's political culture in the antebellum North, articles on the strategies and tactics the antislavery women devised, a pictorial essay presenting rare graphics from both sides of abolitionist debates, and a final chapter comparing the experiences of the American and British women who attended the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London |
| Notes |
"Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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African American women -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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African American women -- Political activity
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Women abolitionists
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Women -- Political activity
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Abolitionismus
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frau
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Abolitionisme.
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Vrouwen.
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yellin, Jean Fagan
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Van Horne, John C
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| ISBN |
9781501711428 |
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1501711423 |
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