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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828274103321

Autore

Robertson Stacey M

Titolo

Hearts beating for liberty : women abolitionists in the old Northwest / / Stacey M. Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0633-X

0-8078-9948-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

326/.80820977

326.80820977

Soggetti

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

Northwest, Old History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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