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Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation

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ISBN-10: 0300115938

ISBN-13: 9780300115932

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kathryn Kish Sklar, James Brewer Stewart

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Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870--the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery. The contributors to this volume, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, investigate the intertwining histories of abolitionism and feminism on both sides of the Atlantic during this dynamic century of change. They illuminate the many ways that the two movements developed together and influenced one another. Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the authors ask how conceptions of slavery and gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, and Britain; how women's activism…    
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Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Context - then and today
Declaring equality : sisterhood and slavery
Sisterhood, slavery, and sovereignty : transnational antislavery work and women's rights movements in the United States during the twentieth century
The impact of antislavery on French, German, and British feminism
How (and why) the analogy of marriage with slavery provided the springboard for women's rights demands in France, 1640-1848
Frauenemancipation and beyond : the use of the concept of emancipation by early European feminists
Women's mobilization in the era of slave emancipation : some Anglo-French comparisons
British abolition and feminism in transatlantic perspective
The transatlantic activism of African-American women abolitionists
Sarah Forten's anti-slavery networks
Incidents abroad : Harriet Jacobs and the transatlantic movement
"Like hot lead to pour on the Americans ..." : Sarah Parker remond - from Salem, Mass., to the British Isles
Literary transnationalism and diasporic history : Frances Watkins Harper's "fancy sketches," 1859-60
Transatlantic influences on the emergence of women's rights in the United States
"The throne of my heart" : religion, oratory, and transatlantic community in Angelina Grimke's launching of women's rights, 1828-1838
The redemption of a heretic : Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American abolitionism
"Seeking a larger liberty" : remapping first wave feminism
Ernestine Rose's Jewish origins and the varieties of Euro-American emancipation in 1848
Transcultural activism against slavery by African-American women
Writing for true womanhood : African-American women's writings and the antislavery struggle
Enacting emancipation : African American women abolitionists at Oberlin College and the quest for empowerment, equality, and respectability
At the boundaries of abolitionism, feminism, and black nationalism : the activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary