The Abolitionist Sisterhood

by Yellin, Jean Fagan; Van Horne, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780801427282
• ISBN10: 0801427282
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction	p. 1
The Female Antislavery Societies
On Their Own Terms: A Historiographical Essay	p. 23
Abolition's Conservative Sisters: The Ladies' New York City Anti-Slavery Societies, 1834-1840	p. 31
The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and the Limits of Gender Politics	p. 45
Priorities and Power: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society	p. 67
Black Women in the Political Culture of Reform
The World the Agitators Made: The Counterculture of Agitation in Urban Philadelphia	p. 91
"You Have Talents - Only Cultivate Them": Philadelphia's Black Female Literary Societies and the Abolitionist Crusade	p. 101
Benevolence and Antislavery Activity among African American Women in New York and Boston, 1820-1840	p. 119
Difference, Slavery, and Memory: Sojourner Truth in Feminist Abolitionism	p. 139
Strategies and Tactics
The Female Antislavery Movement: Fighting against Racial Prejudice and Promoting Women's Rights in Antebellum America	p. 159
"Let Your Names Be Enrolled": Method and Ideology in Women's Antislavery Petitioning	p. 179
Graphic Discord: Abolitionist and Antiabolitionist Images	p. 201
Abby Kelley and the Process of Liberation	p. 231
"A Good Work among the People": The Political Culture of the Boston Antislavery Fair	p. 249
By Moral Force Alone: The Antislavery Women and Nonresistance	p. 275
Coda: Toward 1848
"Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation": American and British Women at the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840	p. 301
Bibliographical Notes	p. 335
Notes on Contributors	p. 341
Index	p. 345
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