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Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation / edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, James Brewer, Author.
- Series:
- The David Brion Davis Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Women abolitionists.
- African American women abolitionists--History--19th century--Congresses.
- African American women abolitionists.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Antislavery movements.
- Women's rights--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.
- Women's rights.
- 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.
- United States.
- Europe--Relations--United States--Congresses.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-73529-9
- 9786611735296
- 0-300-13786-9
- OCLC:
- 923591768
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