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Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany,
Black Women Abolitionists
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Shirley J. Yee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

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Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Julie Roy Jeffrey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slave
Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Kathryn Kish Sklar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-07 - Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

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Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the a
The Abolitionist Sisterhood
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Jean Fagan Yellin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-31 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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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"