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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816883603321

Autore

Midgley Clare <1955, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 1992, 1995

ISBN

1-134-79880-6

1-134-79881-4

9786610114948

1-280-11494-0

0-203-64531-6

1-138-14282-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

326/.0942

Soggetti

Antislavery movements -- Great Britain

Electronic books. -- local

Women abolitionists -- Great Britain

Women abolitionists - Great Britain

Antislavery movements - Great Britain

Communities - Social Classes

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1992 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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