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Title Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation / edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) : illustrations, map
Series The David Brion Davis Series
Contents Declaring equality : sisterhood and slavery / David Brion Davis -- Sisterhood, slavery, and sovereignty : transnational antislavery work and women's rights movements in the United States during the twentieth century / Judith Resnik -- How (and why) the analogy of marriage with slavery provided the springboard for women's rights demands in France, 1640-1848 / Karen Offen -- Frauenemancipation and beyond : the use of the concept of emancipation by early European feminists / Bonnie S. Anderson -- Women's mobilization in the era of slave emancipation : some Anglo-French comparisons / Seymour Drescher -- British abolition and feminism in transatlantic perspective / Clare Midgley -- Sarah Forten's anti-slavery networks / Julie Winch -- Incidents abroad : Harriet Jacobs and the transatlantic movement / Jean Fagan Yellin -- "Like hot lead to pour on the Americans ..." : Sarah Parker Remond-- from Salem, Mass., to the British Isles / Willi Coleman -- Literary transnationalism and diasporic history : Frances Watkins Harper's "Fancy sketches," 1859-60 / Carla L. Peterson -- "The throne of my heart" : religion, oratory, and transatlantic community in Angelina Grimké's launching of women's rights, 1828-1838 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Redemption of a heretic : Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American abolitionism / Deborah A. Logan -- "Seeking a larger liberty" : remapping first wave feminism / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Ernestine Rose's Jewish origins and the varieties of Euro-American emancipation in 1848 / Ellen Carol DuBois -- Writing for true womanhood : African-American women's writings and the antislavery struggle / Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- Enacting emancipation : African American women abolitionists at Oberlin College and the quest for empowerment, equality, and respectability / Carol Lasser -- At the boundaries of abolitionism, feminism, and black nationalism : the activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary / Jane Rhodes
Summary Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the editors ask how conceptions of slavery & gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, & Britain
Notes Based on lectures from a conference in Oct. 2002 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
African American women abolitionists -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Women abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Women abolitionists -- Europe -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Antislavery movements -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
Women's rights -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- General.
African American women abolitionists
Antislavery movements
International relations
Women abolitionists
Women's rights
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Europe -- Congresses
Europe -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses
Subject Europe
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Sklar, Kathryn Kish.
Stewart, James Brewer.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
ISBN 9780300137866
0300137869
9786611735296
6611735291