Hearts Beating for Liberty

Hearts Beating for Liberty
Author: Stacey M. Robertson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807834084

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Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest

Hearts Beating for Liberty

Hearts Beating for Liberty
Author: Stacey M. Robertson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-10-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807899488

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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 Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build this local focus through their unusual and occasionally transgressive activities. They plunged into Liberty Party politics, vociferously supported a Quaker-led boycott of slave goods, and tirelessly aided fugitives and free blacks in their communities. Western women worked closely with male abolitionists, belying the notion of separate spheres that characterized abolitionism in the East. The contested history of race relations in the West also affected the development of abolitionism in the region, necessitating a pragmatic bent in their activities. Female antislavery societies focused on eliminating racist laws, aiding fugitive slaves, and building and sustaining schools for blacks. This approach required that abolitionists of all stripes work together, and women proved especially adept at such cooperation.

Heartsong

Heartsong
Author: Janae Thorne-Bird
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1440184968

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Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism

Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism
Author: J. Brent Morris
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1469618273

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Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America

Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865
Author: Elizabeth J. Clapp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2011-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191618349

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As historians have gradually come to recognize, the involvement of women was central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the United States. Like their male counterparts, women abolitionists did not all speak with one voice. Among the major differences between women were their religious affiliations, an aspect of their commitment that has not been studied in detail. Yet it is clear that the desire to live out and practice their religious beliefs inspired many of the women who participated in anti-slavery activities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book examines the part that the traditions, practices, and beliefs of English Protestant dissent and the American Puritan and evangelical traditions played in women's anti-slavery activism. Focusing particularly on Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Unitarian women, the essays in this volume move from accounts of individual women's participation in the movement as printers and writers, to assessments of the negotiations and the occasional conflicts between different denominational groups and their anti-slavery impulses. Together the essays in this volume explore how the tradition of English Protestant Dissent shaped the American abolitionist movement, and the various ways in which women belonging to the different denominations on both sides of the Atlantic drew on their religious beliefs to influence the direction of their anti-slavery movements. The collection provides a nuanced understanding of why these women felt compelled to fight for the end of slavery in their respective countries.

Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life

Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life
Author: Katharine Conley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780803215238

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He stayed with the official surrealist movement in Paris for only six years but was pivotal during that time in shaping the surrealist notion of "transforming the world" through radical experiments with language and art, After leaving the group, Desnos continued his career of radio broadcasting and writing for commercials.

The Guardian of Liberty

The Guardian of Liberty
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1922
Genre: Anti-Catholicism
ISBN:

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