Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

by Clapp, Elizabeth J.; Jeffrey, Julie Roy

• ISBN13: 9780198725213
• ISBN10: 0198725213
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191618345
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-02-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Elizabeth J. Clapp received her BA and PhD from the University of London. She has taught for a number of years at the University of Leicester where she is a Senior Lecturer in American History. She has published a book and several articles on women's activism in nineteenth-century America and has recently completed a study of Mrs. Anne Royall and the political culture of the early American republic.



Julie Roy Jeffrey received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD from Rice University. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and has held Fulbright awards for teaching in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She works on women and reform in the nineteenth century United States.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Elizabeth J. Clapp
1. Complicating the Story: Religion and Gender in the Historical Representation of British and American Anti-Slavery, David Turley
2. Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94, Timothy Whelan
3. 'We Ought to Obey God rather than Man:' Women, Anti-Slavery, and Nonconformist Religious Cultures, Alison Twells
4. The Dissenting Voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: An Exploration of the Links Between Gender, Religious Dissent, and Anti-Slavery Radicalism, Claire Midgley
5. Immediatism, Dissent, and Gender: Women and the Sentimentalization of Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Appeals, Carol Lasser
6. Women Abolitionists and the Dissenting Tradition, Julie Roy Jeffrey
7. 'On the Side of Righteousness:' Women, the Church, and Abolition, Stacey Robertson
8. Writing Against Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Judie Newman