Title Women, dissent and anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 / edited by Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) Contents Complicating the story: religion and gender in historical writing on British and American anti-slavery / David Turley -- Martha Gurney and the anti-slave trade movement, 1788-94 / Timothy Whelan -- 'We ought to obey God rather than man': women, anti-slavery, and nonconformist religious cultures / Alison Twells -- The dissenting voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: an exploration of the links between gender, religious dissent, and anti-slavery radicalism / Clare Midgley -- Immediatism, dissent, and gender: women and the sentimentalization of transatlantic anti-slavery appeals / Carol Lasser -- Women abolitionists and the dissenting tradition / Julie Roy Jeffrey -- 'On the side of righteousness': women, the church, and abolition / Stacey Robertson -- Writing against slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe / Judie Newman Summary This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index Notes Print version record Subject Women abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Women abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 18th century Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Antislavery movements Women abolitionists Abolitionismus Dissenters Frau Great Britain United States Großbritannien USA Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Clapp, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane), 1960- Jeffrey, Julie Roy ISBN 9780191618345 0191618349 9780191728969 0191728969

Other Titles Women dissent & anti-slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

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