Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery“[The author] tells this remarkable story with honesty and compassion. Readers will find a wealth of new information not only about Kelley’s outstanding contribution to abolitionism but about the movements to bring about the end of slavery and to advance the cause of women.” —Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University In 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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... Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Mary Parker, Mary Clark of Concord, the Balls, the Westons, the Childs & others.” After an exchange of letters the women decided on a bold step. They would call a national convention of antislavery women to meet ...
... Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Mary Parker, Mary Clark of Concord, the Balls, the Westons, the Childs & others.” After an exchange of letters the women decided on a bold step. They would call a national convention of antislavery women to meet ...
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... Grimké. A member of a prominent slaveowning family in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina and her older sister, Sarah, had rejected slavery and lives as southern belles for a meaningful existence in the North. They found peace of mind ...
... Grimké. A member of a prominent slaveowning family in Charleston, South Carolina, Angelina and her older sister, Sarah, had rejected slavery and lives as southern belles for a meaningful existence in the North. They found peace of mind ...
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... Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Lydia Maria Child, Ann C. Smith of Peterboro, New York, wife of Gerrit Smith, an important financial backer of the American Society, Abby Ann Cox, and— here heads may have turned or elbows jabbed a neighbor—Grace ...
... Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Lydia Maria Child, Ann C. Smith of Peterboro, New York, wife of Gerrit Smith, an important financial backer of the American Society, Abby Ann Cox, and— here heads may have turned or elbows jabbed a neighbor—Grace ...
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... Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Maria Child, and Grace Douglass to write a stirring seventypage pamphlet whose theme was expressed by a poem from Sarah Forten, a black Philadelphian: We are thy sisters. God has truly said, That of one blood the ...
... Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Maria Child, and Grace Douglass to write a stirring seventypage pamphlet whose theme was expressed by a poem from Sarah Forten, a black Philadelphian: We are thy sisters. God has truly said, That of one blood the ...
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... Grimké, who were to lecture in Massachusetts that summer, agreed to make Lynn the first stop of their tour. With the sisters as guests of honor, Abby hoped to convince the Lynn women to pledge five hundred dollars to carry on the work ...
... Grimké, who were to lecture in Massachusetts that summer, agreed to make Lynn the first stop of their tour. With the sisters as guests of honor, Abby hoped to convince the Lynn women to pledge five hundred dollars to carry on the work ...
Contents
The Education of Abby Kelley 2 A Wider World | |
Women Find Their Voices | |
The Call | |
A PublicSpeaking Woman 6 War to the Knifes Point | |
The Notorious Abby Kelley | |
A New Hampshire Fanatic | |
Lord What a Tongue Shes | |
Conflicting Claims | |
Bloody Feet Sisters | |
General Agent | |
The Irrepressible Conflict | |
Nothing Is Done While Anything Remains to Be Done | |
A Lonely Rocket in a Dark | |
Notes Selected Bibliography | |
Along the Psychic Highway | |
Antislavery Politics | |
The Path of True Love and Other Matters | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
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