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Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Paperback)
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Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Paperback)
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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.
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