Women, dissent and anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 / edited by Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clapp, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane), 1960-

Jeffrey, Julie Roy

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women abolitionists--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women abolitionists.

Women abolitionists--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women abolitionists--United States--History--18th century.

Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--18th century.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

History.

United States.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Women dissent & anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United States. Like their male counterparts, women abolitionists did not all speak with one voice. Among the major differences between women were their religious affiliations, an aspect of their commitment that has not been studied in detail. Yet it is clear that the desire to live out and practice their religious beliefs inspired many of the women who participated in anti-slavery activities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book examines the part that the traditions, practices, and beliefs of English Protestant dissent and the American Puritan and Evangelical traditions played in women's anti-slavery activism. Focusing particularly on Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Unitarian women, the essays in this volume move from accounts of individual women's participation in the movement as printers and writers, to assessments of the negotiations and the occasional conflicts between different denominational groups and their anti-slavery impulses. Together the essays in this volume explore how the tradition of English Protestant Dissent shaped the American abolitionist movement, and the various ways in which women belonging to the different denominations on both sides of the Atlantic drew on their religious beliefs to influence the direction of their anti-slavery movements. The collection provides a nuanced understanding of why these women felt compelled to fight for the end of slavery in their respective countries. Book jacket.

Contents:

Complicating the story: religion and gender in historical writing on British and American anti-slavery / David Turley

Martha Gurney and the anti-slave trade movement, 1788-94 / Timothy Whelan

'We ought to obey God rather than man': women, anti-slavery, and nonconformist religious cultures / Alison Twells

The dissenting voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: an exploration of the links between gender, religious dissent, and anti-slavery radicalism / Clare Midgley

Immediatism, dissent, and gender: women and the sentimentalism of transatlantic anti-slavery appeals / Carol Lasser

Women abolitionists and the dissenting tradition / Julie Roy Jeffrey

'On the side of righteousness': women, the church, and abolition / Stacey Robertson

Writing against slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe / Judie Newman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780199585489

0199585482

OCLC:

687684655

Publisher Number:

99943943906