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UNINA9910458899503321 |
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Autore |
Robertson Stacey M |
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Titolo |
Hearts beating for liberty [[electronic resource] ] : women abolitionists in the old Northwest / / Stacey M. Robertson |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0633-X |
0-8078-9948-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women abolitionists - Northwest, Old - History - 19th century |
Abolitionists - Northwest, Old - History - 19th century |
Antislavery movements - Northwest, Old - History - 19th century |
Women - Political activity - Northwest, Old - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
Northwest, Old History 19th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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