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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.
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