Hearts beating for liberty : women abolitionists in the old Northwest / Stacey M. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Stacey M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women abolitionists--Northwest, Old--History--19th century.

Women abolitionists.

Abolitionists--Northwest, Old--History--19th century.

Abolitionists.

Antislavery movements--Northwest, Old--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Women--Political activity--Northwest, Old--History--19th century.

Women.

Northwest, Old--History--19th century.

Northwest, Old.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build this local focus through their unusual and occasionally transgressive activities. They plunged into Liberty Party politics, vociferously

Contents:

Grassroots activism and female antislavery societies

Abolitionist women and the Liberty Party

Free produce in the old Northwest

Antislavery fairs, cooperation, and community building

Women lecturers and radical antislavery

Abolitionists and fugitive slaves

Woman's rights and abolition in the West.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908845-9-6

979-88-9313-390-5

1-4696-0633-X

0-8078-9948-8

OCLC:

676698382