Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

Zusatztext The book provides a fascinating! and very detailed! insight into the role of women! particularly those from Puritan and dissenting traditions in the anti-slavery movement. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth J. Clapp received her BA and PhD from the University of London. She has taught for a number of years at the University of Leicester where she is a Senior Lecturer in American History. She has published a book and several articles on women's activism in nineteenth-century America and has recently completed a study of Mrs. Anne Royall and the political culture of the early American republic.Julie Roy Jeffrey received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD from Rice University. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and has held Fulbright awards for teaching in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She works on women and reform in the nineteenth century United States. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth J. Clapp, Elizabeth J. (Senior Lecturer in American H Clapp, Elizabeth J. Jeffrey Clapp, Julie Roy Jeffrey
• Assisted by: Elizabeth J. Clapp (Editor), Julie Roy Jeffrey (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9780198725213
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872521-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education