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

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.

Women Against Slavery

Women Against Slavery
Author: Clare Midgley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134798814

The first full study of women's participation in the British anti-slavery movement. It explores women's distinctive contributions and shows how these were vital in shaping successive stages of the abolutionist campaign.

Advocates of Freedom

Advocates of Freedom
Author: Hannah-Rose Murray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108487513

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement

Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement
Author: Gelien Matthews
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807131318

"Focusing on slave revolts that took place in Barbados in 1816, in Demerara in 1823, and in Jamaica in 1831-32, Matthews identifies four key aspects in British abolitionist propaganda regarding Caribbean slavery: the denial that antislavery activism prompted slave revolts, the attempt to understand and recount slave uprisings from the slaves' perspectives, the portrayal of slave rebels as victims of armed suppressors and as agents of the antislavery movement, and the presentation of revolts as a rationale against the continuance of slavery. She makes use of previously overlooked publications of British abolitionists to prove that their language changed over time in response to slave uprisings.".

Bury the Chains

Bury the Chains
Author: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780618619078

This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.

Moral Capital

Moral Capital
Author: Christopher Leslie Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807830345

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism

Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man

Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man
Author: Calvin Colton
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2022-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man" by Calvin Colton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.