Great Silent Army of Abolitionism

By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army...
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Author: Julie Roy Jeffrey
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Language: English
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Great Silent Army of Abolitionism by Jeffrey, Julie Roy

Great Silent Army of Abolitionism

$144.40

Great Silent Army of Abolitionism

$144.40
Author: Julie Roy Jeffrey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to the Civil War. She offers a complex and compelling portrait of antebellum women's activism, tracing its changing contours over time.
For more than three decades, women raised money, carried petitions, created propaganda, sponsored lecture series, circulated newspapers, supported third-party movements, became public lecturers, and assisted fugitive slaves. Indeed, Jeffrey says, theirs was the day-to-day work that helped to keep abolitionism alive. Drawing from letters, diaries, and institutional records, she uses the words of ordinary women to illuminate the meaning of abolitionism in their lives, the rewards and challenges that their commitment provided, and the anguished personal and public steps that abolitionism sometimes demanded they take. Whatever their position on women's rights, argues Jeffrey, their abolitionist activism was a radical step--one that challenged the political and social status quo as well as conventional gender norms.



Author: Julie Roy Jeffrey
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/09/1998
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780807847411

About the Author
Jeffrey, Julie Roy: - Julie Roy Jeffrey is professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

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