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

• Autore: Robertson Stacey M
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 326/.80820977
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Northwest, Old History 19th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Hearts beating for liberty
• ISBN: 1-4696-0633-X; 0-8078-9948-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785338503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II