Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of AntislaveryIn the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement's chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full story of this principled woman has been told in Dorothy Sterling's compelling biography. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Education of Abby Kelley | 13 |
A Wider World | 26 |
Women Find Their Voices | 39 |
The Call | 60 |
A PublicSpeaking Woman | 82 |
War to the Knifes Point | 94 |
Antislavery Politics | 172 |
The Path of True | 196 |
Lord What a Tongue Shes | 213 |
Conflicting Claims | 234 |
Bloody Feet Sisters | 263 |
General Agent | 276 |
Nothing Is Done While Anything | 331 |
A Lonely Rocket in a Dark | 387 |
The Notorious Abby Kelley | 107 |
A New Hampshire Fanatic | 129 |
Along the Psychic Highway | 150 |
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