The Weston Sisters : An American Abolitionist Family /

The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's most influential members. In an extensive and origin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chambers, Lee V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Weston family.
Women abolitionists.
Sisters.
Antislavery movements.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Soeurs > Études de cas.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Massachusetts > Boston.
Femmes abolitionnistes > Massachusetts.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis.
Sisters > Case studies.
Antislavery movements > Massachusetts > Boston.
Women abolitionists > Massachusetts.
Antislavery movements > United States.
United States.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Massachusetts.
Études de cas.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a household band
  • Married to the cause: the Weston sisters and antislavery
  • Married to each other: marriage, singlehood, and sororal practice
  • I must make money: the sororal economy
  • The cross of my life: social reproduction in the sororal household
  • As if I had never been absent: the household extends its reach
  • Yours with the united faculties of Mary and Martha: politics and kin-keeping
  • Rocking the nation like a cradle: the political import of households
  • Impudent puppies: sisters in the household of faith
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: to be left at Capt. Weston's near wales tavern: on correspondence
  • Weston genealogy
  • Antislavery chronology.

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