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The Abolitionist sisterhood : women's political culture in Antebellum America  Cover Image E-book E-book

The Abolitionist sisterhood : women's political culture in Antebellum America / Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, editors.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. (Added Author). Van Horne, John C. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781501711428
  • ISBN: 1501711423
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 363 pages) : illustrations.
  • Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.

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General Note:
"Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia."
CatMonthString:june.18
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
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Print version record.
Subject: African American women > Political activity.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
Abolitionisme.
Vrouwen.
Frau.
Women abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Women abolitionists.
Women > Political activity > United States > History > 19th century.
Frau
African American women > Political activity > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Abolitionismus
Aufsatzsammlung
Women > Political activity.
United States.
USA.
USA
Genre: Aufsatzsammlung.
Electronic books.
History.


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