The Abolitionist Sisterhood

Author : Jean Fagan Yellin,John C. Van Horne
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501711428

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The Abolitionist Sisterhood by Jean Fagan Yellin,John C. Van Horne Pdf

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
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469618180

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The Weston Sisters by Lee V. Chambers Pdf

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 : Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 0300045158

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Women & Sisters by Jean Fagan Yellin Pdf

Author : Debra Gold Hansen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870238485

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Strained Sisterhood by Debra Gold Hansen Pdf

Explores the origins of the feminist equality-versus-difference debate by examining the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which disbanded in 1840 over this very issue. Hansen concludes that many of the issues that estranged abolitionists in antebellum Boston continue to divide women today.

Author : Keith E. Melder
Publisher : New York : Schocken Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCSC:32106001056461

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Beginnings of Sisterhood by Keith E. Melder Pdf

Author : Kathryn Kish Sklar,James Brewer Stewart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300137866

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Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation by Kathryn Kish Sklar,James Brewer Stewart Pdf

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 : Shirley J. Yee
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0870497367

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Black Women Abolitionists by Shirley J. Yee Pdf

Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.

Author : Clare Midgley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134798803

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Women Against Slavery by Clare Midgley Pdf

This comprehensive study of women anti-slavery campaigners fills a serious gap in abolitionist history. Covering all stages of the campaign, Women Against Slavery uses hitherto neglected sources to build up a vivid picture of the lives, words and actions of the women who were involved, and their distinctive contribution to the abolitionist movement. It looks at the way women's participation influenced the organisation, activities, policy and ideology of the campaign, and analyses the impact of female activism on women's own attitudes to their social roles, and their participation in public life. Exploring the vital role played by gender in shaping the movement as a whole, this book makes an important contribution to the debate on `race' and gender.

Author : Kenyon Gradert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226694023

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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination by Kenyon Gradert Pdf

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.

Author : Marta Breen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499810011

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Fearless Females by Marta Breen Pdf

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Author : Claudine L. Ferrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313021183

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The Abolitionist Movement by Claudine L. Ferrell Pdf

The abolitionists of the 1830s-1850s risked physical harm and social alienation as a result of their refusal to ignore what they considered a national sin, contrary to the ideals upon which America was founded. Derived from the moral accountability called for by the Great Awakening and the Quaker religion, the abolitionist movement demanded not just the gradual dismantling of the system or a mandated political end to slavery, but an end to prejudice in the hearts of the American people. Primary documents, illustrations and biographical sketches of notable figures illuminate the conflicted struggle to end slavery in America. Some called them fanatics; others called them liberators and saints. Immeasurable though their ultimate impact may have been, the abolitionists of the 1830s-1850s risked physical harm and social alienation as a result of their refusal to ignore what they considered a national sin, contrary to the ideals upon which America was founded. Derived from the moral accountability called for by the Great Awakening and the Quaker religion, the abolitionist movement demanded not just the gradual dismantling of the system or a mandated political end to slavery, but an end to prejudice in the hearts of the American people. Claudine Farrell's concluding essay draws parallels between the abolitionists' struggles and the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s-1970s, demonstrating the significant amount of ground being gained in a still-unfinished war. Five narrative chapters explore the abolitionist movement's religious beginnings, the conflict between moral justice and union preservation, and the revolts, divisions and conflicts leading up to the Civil War. Biographical portraits of such notable figures as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Grimke sisters supplement the discussion, and selections from some of the most influential documents in American history—including the Emancipation Proclamation, the US Constitution, and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson—provide actual historical evidence of the events. Twelve illustrations, a chronology, index and extensive annotated bibliography make this an ideal starting point for students looking to understand the battle for and against slavery in America.

Author : Nancie Caraway
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0870497200

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Segregated Sisterhood by Nancie Caraway Pdf

Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520253902

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Cinderella's Sisters by Dorothy Ko Pdf

Footbinding is widely condemned as perverse & as symbolic of male domination over women. This study offers a more complex explanation of a thousand year practice, contending that the binding of women's feet in China was sustained by the interests of both women and men.

Author : Martha Hall Kelly
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524796419

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Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army, and Anne-May Wilson, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. “An exquisite tapestry of women determined to defy the molds the world has for them.”—Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Georgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door, and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape—but only by abandoning the family she loves. Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. Inspired by true accounts, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid, detailed look at the Civil War experience, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations, to a war-torn New York City, to the horrors of the battlefield. It’s a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty, a story still so relevant today.

Author : Lydia Moland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226715858

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Lydia Maria Child by Lydia Moland Pdf

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the Wood,” Child had become famous at an early age for spunky self-help books and charming children’s stories. But in 1833, Child shocked her readers by publishing a scathing book-length argument against slavery in the United States—a book so radical in its commitment to abolition that friends abandoned her, patrons ostracized her, and her book sales plummeted. Yet Child soon drew untold numbers to the abolitionist cause, becoming one of the foremost authors and activists of her generation. Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life tells the story of what brought Child to this moment and the extraordinary life she lived in response. Through Child’s example, philosopher Lydia Moland asks questions as pressing and personal in our time as they were in Child’s: What does it mean to change your life when the moral future of your country is at stake? When confronted by sanctioned evil and systematic injustice, how should a citizen live? Child’s lifetime of bravery, conviction, humility, and determination provides a wealth of spirited guidance for political engagement today.