Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501721755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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In Women's Activism and Social Change, Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communialism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640333
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802–89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights Convention, and a key figure in progressive Quaker, antislavery, feminist, and spiritualist communities, Post sustained movements locally, regionally, and nationally over many decades. But more than simply telling the story of her role as a local leader or a bridge between local and national arenas of activism, Nancy A. Hewitt argues that Post's radical vision offers a critical perspective on current conceptualizations of social activism in the nineteenth century. While some individual radicals in this period have received contemporary attention—most notably William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Lucretia Mott (all of whom were friends of Post)—the existence of an extensive network of radical activists bound together across eight decades by ties of family, friendship, and faith has been largely ignored. In this in-depth biography of Post, Hewitt demonstrates a vibrant radical tradition of social justice that sought to transform the nation.
Author: Sandra S. Weber
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Missouri Bar Association
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Illinois Education Association
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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