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Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation

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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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Corporate Authors: Alexander Street (Firm), Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Other Authors: Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Stewart, James Brewer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Series:The David Brion Davis Series
Subjects:
Women abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses.
African American women abolitionists > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Women's rights > United States > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Women abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Women abolitionists > Europe > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Antislavery movements > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Women's rights > History > 19th century > Congresses.
United States > Relations > Europe > Congresses.
Europe > Relations > United States > Congresses.
Femmes abolitionnistes noires américaines > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès.
Femmes abolitionnistes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès.
Femmes abolitionnistes > Europe > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès.
Femmes > Droits > Histoire > 19e siècle > Congrès.
Europe > Relations > États-Unis > Congrès.
African American women abolitionists
Antislavery movements
International relations
Women abolitionists
Women's rights
Europe
Great Britain
United States
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Declaring Equality: Sisterhood and Slavery
  • 2. Sisterhood, Slavery, and Sovereignty: Transnational Antislavery Work and Women's Rights Movements in the United States During the Twentieth Century
  • 3. How (and Why) the Analogy of Marriage with Slavery Provided the Springboard for Women's Rights Demands in France, 1640-1848 57 Karen Offen
  • 4. Frauenemancipation and Beyond: The Use of the Concept of Emancipation by Early European Feminists
  • 5. Women's Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons
  • 6. British Abolition and Feminism in Transatlantic Perspective
  • 7. Sarah Forten's Anti-Slavery Networks
  • 8. Incidents Abroad: Harriet Jacobs and the Transatlantic Movement
  • 9. ''Like Hot Lead to Pour on the Americans . . .'': Sarah Parker Remond-From Salem, Mass., to the British Isles
  • 10. Literary Transnationalism and Diasporic History: Frances Watkins Harper's ''Fancy Sketches,'' 1859-60
  • 11. ''The Throne of My Heart'': Religion, Oratory, and Transatlantic Community in Angelina Grimké's Launching of Women's Rights, 1828-1838
  • 12. The Redemption of a Heretic: Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American Abolitionism
  • 13. ''Seeking a Larger Liberty'': Remapping First Wave Feminism
  • 14. Ernestine Rose's Jewish Origins and the Varieties of Euro-American Emancipation in 1848
  • 15. Writing for True Womanhood: African-American Women's Writings and the Antislavery Struggle
  • 16. Enacting Emancipation: African American Women Abolitionists at Oberlin College and the Quest for Empowerment, Equality, and Respectability
  • 17. At the Boundaries of Abolitionism, Feminism, and Black Nationalism: The Activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary 346
  • Contributors
  • Index