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  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society: With a Concise Statement of Events, Previous and Subsequent to the Annual Meeting of 1835. Anonymous, 2024-10-11 Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
  boston female anti slavery society: Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, 1837
  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, 1836
  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society; with a concise statement of events, previous and subsequent to the annual meeting of 1835 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts), 1836
  boston female anti slavery society: Strained Sisterhood Debra Gold Hansen, 2009-06 Explores the tensions within he feminist movement through the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society of the nineteenth century.
  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, 2010
  boston female anti slavery society: The Liberty Bell Maria Weston Chapman, 1848
  boston female anti slavery society: Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement Clare Taylor, 1994-11-23 British and American anti-slavery societies were established in the 1820s and 1830s and from an early date included women campaigners. Typical of female abolitionists, the Weston sisters wrote, collected monies and signatures for petitions but rarely spoke in public or advocated a peculiarly feminist cause. This study uncovers their work in America, Britain and France, their connections and campaigns and their contribution both to the anti-slavery movement and to the forging of an Anglo-American democratic alliance.
  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society , 2015-07-08 Excerpt from Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society: With a Concise Statement of Events, Previous and Subsequent to the Annual Meeting of 1835 Soon after, a few ladies who felt a strong interest in the subject, associated themselves, under the name of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society. Their number was twelve. They labored, as they found opportunity, to convince the minds of others of the guilt and ignominy incurred by a nation of slave holders, and of the propriety of acknowledging the justice and necessity of immediate emancipation. They found for their encouragement, abundance of abstract principles. They found also a strong opposition to acting in accordance with those principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  boston female anti slavery society: The Abolitionist Sisterhood Jean Fagan Yellin, John C. Van Horne, 2018-05-31 A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the antislavery females included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing fundraising fairs, writing pamphlets and giftbooks, circulating petitions, even speaking before promiscuous audiences including men and women—the antislavery women energetically created a diverse and dynamic political culture. A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on the principal female antislavery societies, discussions of black women's political culture in the antebellum North, articles on the strategies and tactics the antislavery women devised, a pictorial essay presenting rare graphics from both sides of abolitionist debates, and a final chapter comparing the experiences of the American and British women who attended the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society , 2020-04-16
  boston female anti slavery society: The African-American Mosaic Library of Congress, Beverly W. Brannan, 1993 This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed--
  boston female anti slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimké, 1838
  boston female anti slavery society: Black Women Abolitionists Shirley J. Yee, 1992 Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
  boston female anti slavery society: The Weston Sisters Lee V. Chambers, 2014-11-15 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 work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's most influential members. In an extensive and original look at the connections among women, domesticity, and progressive political movements, Lee V. Chambers argues that it was the familial cooperation and support between sisters, dubbed kin-work, that allowed women like the Westons to participate in the political process, marking a major change in women's roles from the domestic to the public sphere. The Weston sisters and abolitionist families like them supported each other in meeting the challenges of sickness, pregnancy, child care, and the myriad household responsibilities that made it difficult for women to engage in and sustain political activities. By repositioning the household and family to a more significant place in the history of American politics, Chambers examines connections between the female critique of slavery and patriarchy, ultimately arguing that it was family ties that drew women into the activism of public life and kept them there.
  boston female anti slavery society: The Case of the Slave-child, Med Karen Woods Weierman, 2019 In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her freedom and affirm the free soil of Massachusetts. While Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled quite narrowly in the case that enslaved people brought to Massachusetts could not be held against their will, BFASS claimed a broad victory for the abolitionist cause, and Med was released to the care of a local institution. When she died two years later, celebration quickly turned to silence, and her story was soon forgotten. As a result, Commonwealth v. Aves is little known outside of legal scholarship. In this book, Karen Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores Med to her rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law.
  boston female anti slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimké, 1838
  boston female anti slavery society: The Slave's Cause Manisha Sinha, 2016-02-23 “Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. “A full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”—Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning new history of abolitionism . . . [Sinha] plugs abolitionism back into the history of anticapitalist protest.”—The Atlantic “Will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”—The Wall Street Journal “A powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States . . . as multifaceted as the movement it chronicles.”—The Boston Globe
  boston female anti slavery society: More Than Freedom Stephen Kantrowitz, 2012-08-16 A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally understood as the moment African Americans became free, and Reconstruction as the ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend that victory by establishing equal citizenship. In More Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz boldly redefines our understanding of this entire era by showing that the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign to establish full citizenship for African Americans and find a place to belong in a white republic. More Than Freedom chronicles this epic struggle through the lived experiences of black and white activists in and around Boston, including both famous reformers such as Frederick Douglass and Charles Sumner and lesser-known but equally important figures like the journalist William Cooper Nell and the ex-slaves Lewis and Harriet Hayden. While these freedom fighters have traditionally been called abolitionists, their goals and achievements went far beyond emancipation. They mobilized long before they had white allies to rely on and remained militant long after the Civil War ended. These black freedmen called themselves colored citizens and fought to establish themselves in American public life, both by building their own networks and institutions and by fiercely, often violently, challenging proslavery and inegalitarian laws and prejudice. But as Kantrowitz explains, they also knew that until the white majority recognized them as equal participants in common projects they would remain a suspect class. Equal citizenship meant something far beyond freedom: not only full legal and political rights, but also acceptance, inclusion and respect across the color line. Even though these reformers ultimately failed to remake the nation in the way they hoped, their struggle catalyzed the arrival of Civil War and left the social and political landscape of the Union forever altered. Without their efforts, war and Reconstruction could hardly have begun. Bringing a bold new perspective to one of our nation's defining moments, More Than Freedom helps to explain the extent and the limits of the so-called freedom achieved in 1865 and the legacy that endures today.
  boston female anti slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836
  boston female anti slavery society: Bluestockings and Bluenoses Debra Gold Hansen, 1988
  boston female anti slavery society: Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination Kenyon Gradert, 2020-04-10 The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.
  boston female anti slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimke, 1838
  boston female anti slavery society: Right and Wrong in Massachusetts Maria Weston Chapman, 1839
  boston female anti slavery society: The Memoir of James Jackson, The Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months Susan Paul, 2000-02-29 Contains primary source material.
  boston female anti slavery society: Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement Jessie Morgan-Owens, 2019-03-12 An “engrossing narrative history” (Joanna Scutts, The Lily) of the enslaved girl whose photograph transformed the abolition movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light she “passed” as white—a fact abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner knew would be the key to his white audience’s sympathy. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history, “probing issues of colorism and racial politics” (New York Times Book Review) that still affect us profoundly today.
  boston female anti slavery society: An Address Delivered before the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society Nathaniel Rogers, 2024-08-31 Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
  boston female anti slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimke, 2017-10-12 Excerpt from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society In examining this important subject, Ishull depend solely on the Bible to designate the sphere of woman, because I believe almost' every thing that has been written on this subject, has been the result of a misconception of the simple truths revealed in the Scriptures, in consequence of the false translation ofmany passages of Holy Writ. My mind is entirely delivered from the superstitious reverence which is attached to the English version of the Biblefi King J ames's translators certainly were not inspired. I therefore claim the original as my standard, believing that to have been inspir ed, and I also claim to judge for myself what is the meaning of the inspired writers, because I believe it to be the solemn duty of every in dividual to search the Scriptures for themselves, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, and not be governed by the views of any man, or set of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  boston female anti slavery society: Shadows of Voices Dennis McCalib, 1949
  boston female anti slavery society: Frederick Douglass in Context Michaël Roy, 2021-07-08 Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's leading black activist and one of the most celebrated American writers. An international team of scholars sheds new light on the environments and communities that shaped Douglass's career. The book challenges the myth of Douglass as a heroic individualist who towered over family, friends, and colleagues, and reveals instead a man who relied on others and drew strength from a variety of personal and professional relations and networks. This volume offers both a comprehensive representation of Douglass and a series of concentrated studies of specific aspects of his work. It will be a key resource for students, scholars, teachers, and general readers interested in Douglass and his tireless fight for freedom, justice, and equality for all.
  boston female anti slavery society: The Color Of Abolition Linda Hirshman, 2022-02-08 The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement. “Fresh, provocative and engrossing.” —New York Times In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as “the Contessa,” raised money and managed Douglass’s speaking tour from her Boston townhouse. Conventional histories have seen Douglass’s departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as acclaimed historian Linda Hirshman reveals, this completely misses the woman in power. Weston Chapman wrote cutting letters to Douglass, doubting his loyalty; the Bostonian abolitionists were shot through with racist prejudice, even aiming the N-word at Douglass among themselves. Through incisive, original analysis, Hirshman convinces that the inevitable breakup was in fact a successful failure. Eventually, as the most sought-after Black activist in America, Douglass was able to dangle the prize of his endorsement over the Republican Party’s candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln. Two years later the abolition of slavery—if not the abolition of racism—became immutable law.
  boston female anti slavery society: Ahead of Her Time Dorothy Sterling, 1991 Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.
  boston female anti slavery society: The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 2011-09-06 An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
  boston female anti slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimke, 2019
  boston female anti slavery society: Networks and Spheres Beth Ann Salerno, 2000
  boston female anti slavery society: The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina Gerda Lerner, 1998 In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements.
  boston female anti slavery society: Appeal to the Christian women of the South Angelina Emily Grimké, 2022-08-10 But after all, it may be said, our fathers were certainly mistaken, for the Bible sanctions Slavery, and that is the highest authority. Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us. Let us then begin with Adam and examine the charter of privileges which was given to him. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
  boston female anti slavery society: Performing Anti-Slavery Gay Gibson Cima, 2014-04-24 Performing Anti-Slavery demonstrates how black and white abolitionist women transformed antebellum performance practice into a critique of state violence.
  boston female anti slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of the Woman Sarah Moore Grimké, 1970
  boston female anti slavery society: Autobiography of a Female Slave Martha Griffith Browne, 1857 Fictionalized account of slave life in Kentucky.

  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society: With a Concise Statement of Events, Previous and Subsequent to the Annual Meeting of 1835. Anonymous, 2024-10-11 Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, 1837
  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, 1836
  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society; with a concise statement of events, previous and subsequent to the annual meeting of 1835 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts), 1836
  boston female anti-slavery society: Strained Sisterhood Debra Gold Hansen, 2009-06 Explores the tensions within he feminist movement through the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society of the nineteenth century.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, 2010
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Liberty Bell Maria Weston Chapman, 1848
  boston female anti-slavery society: Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement Clare Taylor, 1994-11-23 British and American anti-slavery societies were established in the 1820s and 1830s and from an early date included women campaigners. Typical of female abolitionists, the Weston sisters wrote, collected monies and signatures for petitions but rarely spoke in public or advocated a peculiarly feminist cause. This study uncovers their work in America, Britain and France, their connections and campaigns and their contribution both to the anti-slavery movement and to the forging of an Anglo-American democratic alliance.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society , 2015-07-08 Excerpt from Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society: With a Concise Statement of Events, Previous and Subsequent to the Annual Meeting of 1835 Soon after, a few ladies who felt a strong interest in the subject, associated themselves, under the name of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society. Their number was twelve. They labored, as they found opportunity, to convince the minds of others of the guilt and ignominy incurred by a nation of slave holders, and of the propriety of acknowledging the justice and necessity of immediate emancipation. They found for their encouragement, abundance of abstract principles. They found also a strong opposition to acting in accordance with those principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Abolitionist Sisterhood Jean Fagan Yellin, John C. Van Horne, 2018-05-31 A small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the antislavery females included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing fundraising fairs, writing pamphlets and giftbooks, circulating petitions, even speaking before promiscuous audiences including men and women—the antislavery women energetically created a diverse and dynamic political culture. A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on the principal female antislavery societies, discussions of black women's political culture in the antebellum North, articles on the strategies and tactics the antislavery women devised, a pictorial essay presenting rare graphics from both sides of abolitionist debates, and a final chapter comparing the experiences of the American and British women who attended the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society , 2020-04-16
  boston female anti-slavery society: The African-American Mosaic Library of Congress, Beverly W. Brannan, 1993 This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed--
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Weston Sisters Lee V. Chambers, 2014-11-15 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 work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's most influential members. In an extensive and original look at the connections among women, domesticity, and progressive political movements, Lee V. Chambers argues that it was the familial cooperation and support between sisters, dubbed kin-work, that allowed women like the Westons to participate in the political process, marking a major change in women's roles from the domestic to the public sphere. The Weston sisters and abolitionist families like them supported each other in meeting the challenges of sickness, pregnancy, child care, and the myriad household responsibilities that made it difficult for women to engage in and sustain political activities. By repositioning the household and family to a more significant place in the history of American politics, Chambers examines connections between the female critique of slavery and patriarchy, ultimately arguing that it was family ties that drew women into the activism of public life and kept them there.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimké, 1838
  boston female anti-slavery society: Black Women Abolitionists Shirley J. Yee, 1992 Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Hearts Beating for Liberty Stacey M. Robertson, 2010-10-11 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.
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism Julie Roy Jeffrey, 2000-11-09 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.
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Case of the Slave-child, Med Karen Woods Weierman, 2019 In 1836, an enslaved six-year-old girl named Med was brought to Boston by a woman from New Orleans who claimed her as property. Learning of the girl's arrival in the city, the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) waged a legal fight to secure her freedom and affirm the free soil of Massachusetts. While Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled quite narrowly in the case that enslaved people brought to Massachusetts could not be held against their will, BFASS claimed a broad victory for the abolitionist cause, and Med was released to the care of a local institution. When she died two years later, celebration quickly turned to silence, and her story was soon forgotten. As a result, Commonwealth v. Aves is little known outside of legal scholarship. In this book, Karen Woods Weierman complicates Boston's identity as the birthplace of abolition and the cradle of liberty, and restores Med to her rightful place in antislavery history by situating her story in the context of other writings on slavery, childhood, and the law.
  boston female anti-slavery society: A Fragile Freedom Erica Armstrong Dunbar, 2008-10-01 Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War.
  boston female anti-slavery society: More Than Freedom Stephen Kantrowitz, 2012-08-16 A major new narrative account of the long struggle of Northern activists-both black and white, famous and obscure-to establish African Americans as free citizens, from abolitionism through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and its demise Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is generally understood as the moment African Americans became free, and Reconstruction as the ultimately unsuccessful effort to extend that victory by establishing equal citizenship. In More Than Freedom, award-winning historian Stephen Kantrowitz boldly redefines our understanding of this entire era by showing that the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign to establish full citizenship for African Americans and find a place to belong in a white republic. More Than Freedom chronicles this epic struggle through the lived experiences of black and white activists in and around Boston, including both famous reformers such as Frederick Douglass and Charles Sumner and lesser-known but equally important figures like the journalist William Cooper Nell and the ex-slaves Lewis and Harriet Hayden. While these freedom fighters have traditionally been called abolitionists, their goals and achievements went far beyond emancipation. They mobilized long before they had white allies to rely on and remained militant long after the Civil War ended. These black freedmen called themselves colored citizens and fought to establish themselves in American public life, both by building their own networks and institutions and by fiercely, often violently, challenging proslavery and inegalitarian laws and prejudice. But as Kantrowitz explains, they also knew that until the white majority recognized them as equal participants in common projects they would remain a suspect class. Equal citizenship meant something far beyond freedom: not only full legal and political rights, but also acceptance, inclusion and respect across the color line. Even though these reformers ultimately failed to remake the nation in the way they hoped, their struggle catalyzed the arrival of Civil War and left the social and political landscape of the Union forever altered. Without their efforts, war and Reconstruction could hardly have begun. Bringing a bold new perspective to one of our nation's defining moments, More Than Freedom helps to explain the extent and the limits of the so-called freedom achieved in 1865 and the legacy that endures today.
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Slave's Cause Manisha Sinha, 2016-02-23 “Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America.”—Florida Courier Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe. “A full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”—Ira Berlin, The New York Times Book Review “A stunning new history of abolitionism . . . [Sinha] plugs abolitionism back into the history of anticapitalist protest.”—The Atlantic “Will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.”—The Wall Street Journal “A powerfully unfamiliar look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States . . . as multifaceted as the movement it chronicles.”—The Boston Globe
  boston female anti-slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimké, 1838
  boston female anti-slavery society: Report of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836
  boston female anti-slavery society: Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination Kenyon Gradert, 2020-04-10 The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Puritan” is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear this. They fervently embraced the idea that Puritans were in fact pioneers of revolutionary dissent and invoked their name and ideas as part of their antislavery crusade. Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination reveals how the leaders of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement—from landmark figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson to scores of lesser-known writers and orators—drew upon the Puritan tradition to shape their politics and personae. In a striking instance of selective memory, reimagined aspects of Puritan history proved to be potent catalysts for abolitionist minds. Black writers lauded slave rebels as new Puritan soldiers, female antislavery militias in Kansas were cast as modern Pilgrims, and a direct lineage of radical democracy was traced from these early New Englanders through the American and French Revolutions to the abolitionist movement, deemed a “Second Reformation” by some. Kenyon Gradert recovers a striking influence on abolitionism and recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a strictly conservative ideology, averse to the worldly rebellion demanded by abolitionists.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Bluestockings and Bluenoses Debra Gold Hansen, 1988
  boston female anti-slavery society: Performing Anti-Slavery Gay Gibson Cima, 2014-04-24 Performing Anti-Slavery demonstrates how black and white abolitionist women transformed antebellum performance practice into a critique of state violence.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimke, 1838
  boston female anti-slavery society: Right and Wrong in Massachusetts Maria Weston Chapman, 1839
  boston female anti-slavery society: Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement Jessie Morgan-Owens, 2019-03-12 An “engrossing narrative history” (Joanna Scutts, The Lily) of the enslaved girl whose photograph transformed the abolition movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family’s freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of American slavery. Due to generations of sexual violence, Mary’s skin was so light she “passed” as white—a fact abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner knew would be the key to his white audience’s sympathy. Girl in Black and White restores Mary to her rightful place in history, “probing issues of colorism and racial politics” (New York Times Book Review) that still affect us profoundly today.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Shadows of Voices Dennis McCalib, 1949
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Memoir of James Jackson, The Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months Susan Paul, 2000-02-29 Contains primary source material.
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Color Of Abolition Linda Hirshman, 2022-02-08 The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement. “Fresh, provocative and engrossing.” —New York Times In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as “the Contessa,” raised money and managed Douglass’s speaking tour from her Boston townhouse. Conventional histories have seen Douglass’s departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as acclaimed historian Linda Hirshman reveals, this completely misses the woman in power. Weston Chapman wrote cutting letters to Douglass, doubting his loyalty; the Bostonian abolitionists were shot through with racist prejudice, even aiming the N-word at Douglass among themselves. Through incisive, original analysis, Hirshman convinces that the inevitable breakup was in fact a successful failure. Eventually, as the most sought-after Black activist in America, Douglass was able to dangle the prize of his endorsement over the Republican Party’s candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln. Two years later the abolition of slavery—if not the abolition of racism—became immutable law.
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 2011-09-06 An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
  boston female anti-slavery society: An Address Delivered before the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society Nathaniel Rogers, 2024-08-31 Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimke, 2017-10-12 Excerpt from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society In examining this important subject, Ishull depend solely on the Bible to designate the sphere of woman, because I believe almost' every thing that has been written on this subject, has been the result of a misconception of the simple truths revealed in the Scriptures, in consequence of the false translation ofmany passages of Holy Writ. My mind is entirely delivered from the superstitious reverence which is attached to the English version of the Biblefi King J ames's translators certainly were not inspired. I therefore claim the original as my standard, believing that to have been inspir ed, and I also claim to judge for myself what is the meaning of the inspired writers, because I believe it to be the solemn duty of every in dividual to search the Scriptures for themselves, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, and not be governed by the views of any man, or set of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Ahead of Her Time Dorothy Sterling, 1991 Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman Sarah Moore Grimke, 2019
  boston female anti-slavery society: Networks and Spheres Beth Ann Salerno, 2000
  boston female anti-slavery society: The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina Gerda Lerner, 1998 In The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, Gerda Lerner, herself a leading historian and pioneer in the study of Women's History, tells the story of these determined sisters and the contributions they made to the antislavery and woman's rights movements.
  boston female anti-slavery society: Appeal to the Christian women of the South Angelina Emily Grimké, 2022-08-10 But after all, it may be said, our fathers were certainly mistaken, for the Bible sanctions Slavery, and that is the highest authority. Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us. Let us then begin with Adam and examine the charter of privileges which was given to him. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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