The Abolitionist Sisterhood - Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America

Summary

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...

Product details

• Assisted by: John C. Van Horne (Editor), John C. Van Horne (Editor), Jean Fagan Yellin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.1994
• EAN: 9780801427282
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-2728-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Illustrations: 27 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Food Systems and Agrarian Chan; Food Systems and Agrarian Chan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei