| Description |
xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cornell paperbacks
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| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-340) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 |
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-- 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 |
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-- Difference, slavery and memory : Sojourner Truth in feminist abolitionism / by Nell Irvin Painter -- 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 -- Good work among the people" / by Lee |
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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. |
| Subject |
Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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African American women -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century.
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| Indexed Term |
Slavery Protest movements History |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Yellin, Jean Fagan.
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Van Horne, John C.
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| ISBN |
0801480116 paperback |
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0801427282 |
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