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

Additional Titles: Women dissent & anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description: x, 214 pages ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: Clapp, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane), 1960- and Jeffrey, Julie Roy

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Complicating the Story: Religion and Gender in Historical Writing on British and American Anti-Slavery / David Turley -- 2.Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94 / Timothy Whelan -- 3.`We Ought to Obey God rather than Man': Women, Anti-Slavery, and Nonconformist Religious Cultures / Alison Twells -- 4.The Dissenting Voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: An Exploration of the Links Between Gender, Religious Dissent, and Anti-Slavery Radicalism / Clare Midgley -- 5.Immediatism, Dissent, and Gender: Women and the Sentimentalization of Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Appeals / Carol Lasser -- 6.Women Abolitionists and the Dissenting Tradition / Julie Roy Jeffrey -- 7.`On the Side of Righteousness': Women, the Church, and Abolition / Stacey Robertson -- 8.Writing Against Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe / Judie Newman.

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Women abolitionists—Great Britain—History—18th century
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—Great Britain—History—19th century
Antislavery movements—United States—History—18th century
Antislavery movements—United States—History—19th century

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9780199585489
0199585482

Bibliography Note

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

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

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