Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation
Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870-the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery. The contributors to this volume, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, investigate the intertwining hi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2007.
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| Series: | The David Brion Davis Series
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| Summary: | Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870-the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery. The contributors to this volume, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, investigate the intertwining histories of abolitionism and feminism on both sides of the Atlantic during this dynamic century of change. They illuminate the many ways that the two movements developed together and influenced one another.Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the authors ask how conceptions of slavery and gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, and Britain; how women's activism reached across national boundaries; how racial identities affected the boundaries of women's activism; and what was distinctive about African-American women's participation as activists. Their thought-provoking answers provide rich insights into the history of struggles for social justice across the Atlantic world. |
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| Item Description: | Based on lectures from a conference in Oct. 2002 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (410 p.). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1281735299 9781281735294 9786611735296 6611735291 0300137869 9780300137866 0300115938 9780300115932 |