Hearts beating for liberty : women abolitionists in the old Northwest /
Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build this local focus by plunging into Liberty Party politics, vociferously supporting a Q...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Grassroots activism and female antislavery societies
- Abolitionist women and the Liberty Party
- Free produce in the old Northwest
- Antislavery fairs, cooperation, and community building
- Women lecturers and radical antislavery
- Abolitionists and fugitive slaves
- Woman's rights and abolition in the West.