Women against slavery : the British campaigns, 1780-1870 / lare Midgley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Midgley, Clare, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--Great Britain.

Electronic books. -- local.

Women abolitionists--Great Britain.

Local Subjects:

Antislavery movements--Great Britain.

Electronic books. -- local.

Women abolitionists--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1992, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive study of women anti-slavery campaigners fills a serious gap in abolitionist history. Covering all stages of the campaign, <EM>Women Against Slavery</EM> uses hitherto neglected sources to build up a vivid picture of the lives, words and actions of the women who were involved, and their distinctive contribution to the abolitionist movement. It looks at the way women's participation influenced the organisation, activities, policy and ideology of the campaign, and analyses the impact of female activism on women's own attitudes to their social roles, and their participation in p

Contents:

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 ANTI-SLAVERY AND WOMEN: CHALLENGING THE OLD PICTURE; Part I WOMEN AGAINST THE SLAVE TRADE, 1783-1815; 2 PARTICIPANTS FROM THE FIRST; ORIGINATORS; SUPPORTERS; Quakers; Social and family network; Subscribers; Signatories and speakers; RADICALS AND REACTIONARIES; IMAGINATIVE WRITERS; BOYCOTTERS; Part II WOMEN AGAINST BRITISH COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1823-1838; 3 'CEMENT OF THE WHOLE ANTISLAVERY BUILDING'; ORGANISING; FUNDING; INFORMING; ABSTAINING; PETITIONING

4 ANTI-SLAVERY IN THE FABRIC OF WOMEN'S LIVESMIDDLE-CLASS ORGANISERS; WORKING-CLASS PARTICIPANTS; BLACK RESISTERS; 5 PERSPECTIVES, PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES; PLEADING FOR HER OWN SEX; Part III WOMEN AND 'UNIVERSAL ABOLITION', 1834-1868; 6 THE TRANSATLANTIC SISTERHOOD; UNIVERSAL ABOLITION; CO-OPERATION AND SISTERHOOD; LEADERSHIP AND INDEPENDENCE; RACE, SEX AND CLASS; Black activists and racial segregation; The influence of Uncle Tom's Cabin; Working-class antagonism; 7 THE 'WOMAN QUESTION'; A DAWNING AWARENESS; CONTROVERSY AND DEBATE; STEPS TOWARDS EQUALITY; ANTI-SLAVERY AND ORGANISED FEMINISM

8 A LINGERING CONCERNWAR AND POLARISATION; FREEDOM AND AID; REBELLION AND REACTION; 9 ANTI-SLAVERY AND WOMEN: A NEW PICTURE; APPENDIX: LADIES' ANTI-SLAVERY ASSOCIATIONS; (1) 1825-33; (2) 1833-38; (3) 1839-68; (a) Donating to the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; (b) Independent Ladies' Associations; (c) Ladies' Free-Labour Produce Associations, 1840s-50s; (d) Ladies' Associations Founded by Julia Griffiths, 1856-57; (e) Ladies' Freedman's Aid Societies, 1862-68; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; BOOKS; ARTICLES; THESES AND OTHER UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL; INDEX

Notes:

First published 1992 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-270) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-79880-6

1-134-79881-4

9786610114948

1-280-11494-0

0-203-64531-6

1-138-14282-4

OCLC:

437059912