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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...

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The overall aim of showing the impact, complexity and dynamic quality of female anti-slavery work is amply realized.

* Slavery and Abolition *

This fine collection of essays explores the initial development of American women's political culture through the antislavery movement led by women reformers from the Northeast in the late 1830s.

* Journal of American History *

The Abolitionist Sisterhood

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean Fagan Yellin, John C. Van Horne

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 21/06/1994
      ISBN13: 9780801480119, 978-0801480119
      ISBN10: 0801480116
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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...

      Trade Review

      The overall aim of showing the impact, complexity and dynamic quality of female anti-slavery work is amply realized.

      * Slavery and Abolition *

      This fine collection of essays explores the initial development of American women's political culture through the antislavery movement led by women reformers from the Northeast in the late 1830s.

      * Journal of American History *

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