The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America

ISBN-13: 9780801480119 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str.

Jean Fagan Yellin; John C. Van Horne

Opis

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...