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Radical Friend Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds / Nancy A. Hewitt.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewitt, Nancy A., 1951- author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Social movements.
- Women radicals--New York (State)--Biography.
- Women radicals.
- Social reformers--New York (State)--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- Quaker women--New York (State)--Biography.
- Quaker women.
- Post, Amy Kirby, 1802-.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802-89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights Convention, and a key figure in progressive Quaker, antislavery, feminist, and spiritualist communities, Post sustained movements locally, regionally, and nationally over many decades. But more than simply telling the story of her role as a local leader or a bridge between local and national arenas of activism, Nancy A. Hewitt argues that Post's radical vision offers a critical perspective on current conceptualizations of social activism in the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Family and faith, 1790-1828
- Frontier friends, 1828-1836
- Worldly associations, 1836-1841
- Abolitionist bonds, 1842-1847
- Orchestrating change, 1847-1848
- Shifting alliances, 1849-1853
- Practical righteousness, 1854-1861
- Coming together, 1862-1872
- Sustaining visions, 1873-1889.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890880116
- 9781469640334
- 1469640333
- 9781469641423
- 1469641429
- OCLC:
- 1029343355
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