The True Way

The True Way
Author: Lizzie E. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1895
Genre: Evangelistic work
ISBN:

Bulletin ...

Bulletin ...
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1913
Genre:
ISBN:

The Abolitionist Sisterhood

The Abolitionist Sisterhood
Author: Jean Fagan Yellin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501711423

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.

The Remaking of Pittsburgh

The Remaking of Pittsburgh
Author: Francis G. Couvares
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1984-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 079149988X

What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big Steel? How did a city that fervidly embraced the labor struggle of 1877 turn into the city which so fiercely repudiated the labor struggle of 1919? The Remaking of Pittsburgh is the history of this transformation. The cultural dimensions of industrialization come to life as Couvares calls upon labor history, urban history, and the history of popular culture to depict the demise of the "craftsman's empire" and the birth of a cosmopolitan bourgeois society. The book explores the impact of immigration on the shaping of modern Pittsburgh and the emergence of mass culture within the community. In the midst of these processes of transformation, the giant steel corporations were continually reshaping the life of the city.