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



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Autore: Robertson Stacey M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Hearts beating for liberty [[electronic resource] ] : women abolitionists in the old Northwest / / Stacey M. Robertson Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0633-X
0-8078-9948-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785338503321
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