Women, dissent and anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 / edited by Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey.

Other Title:

Women dissent & anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 214 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Women abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Women abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Contents:

Complicating the story: religion and gender in historical writing on British and American anti-slavery / David Turley
Martha Gurney and the anti-slave trade movement, 1788-94 / Timothy Whelan
'We ought to obey God rather than man': women, anti-slavery, and nonconformist religious cultures / Alison Twells
The dissenting voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: an exploration of the links between gender, religious dissent, and anti-slavery radicalism / Clare Midgley
Immediatism, dissent, and gender: women and the sentimentalism of transatlantic anti-slavery appeals / Carol Lasser
Women abolitionists and the dissenting tradition / Julie Roy Jeffrey
'On the side of righteousness': women, the church, and abolition / Stacey Robertson
Writing against slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe / Judie Newman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Contributor:

Clapp, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane), 1960-
Jeffrey, Julie Roy.
John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780199585489
0199585482

OCLC:

687684655

Publisher Number:

99943943906

Web link:

The John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund Home Page

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