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

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. INDICE: Elizabeth J. Clapp: Introduction; 1: David Turley: Complicating the Story: Religion and Gender in the Historical Representation of British and American Anti-Slavery; 2: Timothy Whelan: Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94; 3: Alison Twells: 'We Ought to Obey God rather than Man:'Women, Anti-Slavery, and Nonconformist Religious Cultures; 4: Claire Midgley:The Dissenting Voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: An Exploration of the Links Between Gender, Religious Dissent, and Anti-Slavery Radicalism; 5: Carol Lasser: Immediatism, Dissent, and Gender: Women and the Sentimentalization of Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Appeals; 6: Julie Roy Jeffrey: Women Abolitionists and the Dissenting Tradition; 7: Stacey Robinson: 'On the Side of Righteousness:' Women, the Church, and Abolition; 8: Judie Newman: Writing Against Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958548-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés