The Abolitionist sisterhood : women's political culture in Antebellum America / Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, editors.
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 gif...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994. |
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Table of 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.