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The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women´s Political Culture in Antebellum America
Jean Fagan Yellin (Ed.)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Yellin, Jean Fagan; Van Horne, John C. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 599.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801480119
SKU
V9780801480119
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About Jean Fagan Yellin (Ed.)
Jean Fagan Yellin is Distinguished Professor of English at Pace University. Her previous books include Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. John C. Van Horne is Librarian of The Library Company of Philadelphia. He is the editor of The Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Reviews for The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women´s Political Culture in Antebellum America
This fine collection of essays explores the initial development of American women's political culture through the antislavery movement led by women reformers from the Northeast in the late 1830s.
Journal of American History
The overall aim of showing the impact, complexity and dynamic quality of female anti-slavery work is amply realized.
Slavery and Abolition ... Read more
Journal of American History
The overall aim of showing the impact, complexity and dynamic quality of female anti-slavery work is amply realized.
Slavery and Abolition ... Read more