Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385265983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Eleventh annual report of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385265983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Annual Report of the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
Author: Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896
Author: Ira Vernon BrownPublisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636205
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is the first full-length biography of Mary Grew (1813-96), an American abolitionist and feminist, who worked steadily in the antislavery crusade from 1834 to 1865, in the Negro suffrage campaign from 1865 to 1870, and in the woman's rights movements from 1848 to 1892, her eightieth year.
Reforming Men and Women
Author: Bruce DorseyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801472886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working class.Urban poverty, drink, slavery, and Irish Catholic immigration--for each of these social problems that engrossed Northern reformers, Dorsey examines the often competing views held by male and female activists and shows how their perspectives were further complicated by differences in class, race, and generation. His primary focus is Philadelphia, birthplace of nearly every kind of benevolent and reform society and emblematic of changes occurring throughout the North. With an especially rich history of African-American activism, the city is ideal for Dorsey's exploration of race and reform.Combining stories of both ordinary individuals and major reformers with an insightful analysis of contemporary songs, plays, fiction, and polemics, Dorsey exposes the ways race, class, and ethnicity influenced the meanings of manhood and womanhood in nineteenth-century America. By linking his gendered history of religious activism with the transformations characterizing antebellum society, he contributes to a larger quest: to engender all of American history.
Women and the Work of Benevolence
Author: Lori D. GinzbergPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300052541
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric--especially in the antebellum years--proclaimed that virtue was more pronounced in women than in men and praised women for their benevolent influence, moral excellence, and religious faith. In this book, Lori D. Ginzberg examines a broad spectrum of benevolent work performed by middle- and upper-middle-class women from the 1820s to 185 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women's reform activism. During the antebellum period, says Ginzberg, the idea of female moral superiority and the benevolent work it supported contained both radical and conservative possibilities, encouraging an analysis of femininity that could undermine male dominance as well as guard against impropriety. At the same time, benevolent work and rhetoric were vehicles for the emergence of a new middle-class identity, one which asserts virtue--not wealth--determined status. Ginzberg shows how a new generation that came of age during the 1850s and the Civil War developed new analyses of benevolence and reform. By post-bellum decades, the heirs of antebellum benevolence referred less to a mission of moral regeneration and far more to a responsibility to control the poor and "vagrant," signaling the refashioning of the ideology of benevolence from one of gender to one of class. According to Ginzberg, these changing interpretations of benevolent work throughout the century not only signal an important transformation in women's activists' culture and politics but also illuminate the historical development of American class identity and of women's role in constructing social and political authority.
Jubilee's Experiment
Author: Dexter J. GabrielPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108982220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Dexter J. Gabriel's Jubilee's Experiment is a thorough examination of how the emancipated British Caribbean colonies entered into the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the US from the 1830s through the 1860s. It analyzes this public discourse, created by black and white abolitionists, and African Americans more generally in antebellum America, as both propaganda and rhetoric. Simultaneously, Gabriel interweaves the lived experiences of former slaves in the West Indies – their daily acts of resistance and struggles for greater freedoms – to further augment but complicate this debate. An important and timely intervention, Jubilee's Experiment argues that the measured success of former slaves in the West Indies became a crucial focal point in the struggle against slavery in antebellum North America.
Thirteenth (fourteenth) Annual Report presented to the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, by its executive committee, etc
Author: Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (PENNSYLVANIA)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Abolitionist Sisterhood
Author: Jean Fagan YellinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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.
Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865
Author: Elizabeth J. ClappPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199585482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions.
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina
Author: Gerda LernerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106032
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements.
