Book Description
Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
Author : Shirley J. Yee
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870497360
Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 28,60 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0486850242
This original collection of essays, letters, poems, and speeches by 26 of the bold women who joined the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century features the work of Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Harriet Tubman, and more.
Author : Stacey M. Robertson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899488
Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build this local focus through their unusual and occasionally transgressive activities. They plunged into Liberty Party politics, vociferously supported a Quaker-led boycott of slave goods, and tirelessly aided fugitives and free blacks in their communities. Western women worked closely with male abolitionists, belying the notion of separate spheres that characterized abolitionism in the East. The contested history of race relations in the West also affected the development of abolitionism in the region, necessitating a pragmatic bent in their activities. Female antislavery societies focused on eliminating racist laws, aiding fugitive slaves, and building and sustaining schools for blacks. This approach required that abolitionists of all stripes work together, and women proved especially adept at such cooperation.
Author : Wendy Hamand Venet
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813913421
This account of women's abolitionist activity during the Civil War offers new evidence of the extent of women's political activism and insightfully reveals the historical significance of this activism. Through the Woman's National Loyal League, women were introduced into the political sphere from which they had previously been barred. The work of women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opened new avenues for feminist activism after the war. In her analysis Wendy Hamand Venet examines how the rift in the league influenced the feminist movement positively by impelling its leaders to distinguish their cause from other political concerns and place it in the spotlight.
Author : Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1501711423
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 : Clare Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1994-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1349237663
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 : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 1137045272
Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Author : Julie Roy Jeffrey
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807866849
By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to the Civil War. She offers a complex and compelling portrait of antebellum women's activism, tracing its changing contours over time. For more than three decades, women raised money, carried petitions, created propaganda, sponsored lecture series, circulated newspapers, supported third-party movements, became public lecturers, and assisted fugitive slaves. Indeed, Jeffrey says, theirs was the day-to-day work that helped to keep abolitionism alive. Drawing from letters, diaries, and institutional records, she uses the words of ordinary women to illuminate the meaning of abolitionism in their lives, the rewards and challenges that their commitment provided, and the anguished personal and public steps that abolitionism sometimes demanded they take. Whatever their position on women's rights, argues Jeffrey, their abolitionist activism was a radical step--one that challenged the political and social status quo as well as conventional gender norms.
Author : Catherine H. Birney
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN :