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The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Julie Roy Jeffrey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slave
Abolitionists Remember
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Julie Roy Jeffrey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In Abolitionists Remember, Julie Roy Jeffrey illuminates a second, little-noted antislavery struggle as abolitionists in the postwar period attempted to counter
Black Women Abolitionists
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Shirley J. Yee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

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Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
The Weston Sisters
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Lee V. Chambers
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-15 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's wor
Hearts Beating for Liberty
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Stacey M. Robertson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-11 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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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 Wi