The Abolitionist Sisterhood

Author : Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711423
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abolitionist Sisterhood written by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lee V. Chambers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618184
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weston Sisters written by Lee V. Chambers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's most influential members. In an extensive and original look at the connections among women, domesticity, and progressive political movements, Lee V. Chambers argues that it was the familial cooperation and support between sisters, dubbed "kin-work," that allowed women like the Westons to participate in the political process, marking a major change in women's roles from the domestic to the public sphere. The Weston sisters and abolitionist families like them supported each other in meeting the challenges of sickness, pregnancy, child care, and the myriad household responsibilities that made it difficult for women to engage in and sustain political activities. By repositioning the household and family to a more significant place in the history of American politics, Chambers examines connections between the female critique of slavery and patriarchy, ultimately arguing that it was family ties that drew women into the activism of public life and kept them there.

Author : Shirley J. Yee
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497360
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women Abolitionists written by Shirley J. Yee and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.

Author : Clare Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349237663
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement written by Clare Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-11-23 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British and American anti-slavery societies were established in the 1820s and 1830s and from an early date included women campaigners. Typical of female abolitionists, the Weston sisters wrote, collected monies and signatures for petitions but rarely spoke in public or advocated a peculiarly feminist cause. This study uncovers their work in America, Britain and France, their connections and campaigns and their contribution both to the anti-slavery movement and to the forging of an Anglo-American democratic alliance.

Author : Keith E. Melder
Publisher : New York : Schocken Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginnings of Sisterhood written by Keith E. Melder and published by New York : Schocken Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine H. Birney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grimké Sisters written by Catherine H. Birney and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300137869
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation written by Kathryn Kish Sklar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, & Britain.

Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807868096
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina written by Gerda Lerner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings.

Author : Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300045154
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women & Sisters written by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Debra Gold Hansen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558497634
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strained Sisterhood written by Debra Gold Hansen and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the tensions within he feminist movement through the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society of the nineteenth century.