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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... asked, while William Lloyd Garrison called her “most persevering, most selfsacrificing, most energetic, most meritorious” and “the moral Joan of Arc of the world.”6 But as historians told, revised, and retold the history of the ...
... asked, while William Lloyd Garrison called her “most persevering, most selfsacrificing, most energetic, most meritorious” and “the moral Joan of Arc of the world.”6 But as historians told, revised, and retold the history of the ...
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... asked more than a century earlier. Once a month the meeting for worship was followed by a business meeting. Then the children watched, fascinated, as with a creaking noise shutters descended from the ceiling, dividing the room in two so ...
... asked more than a century earlier. Once a month the meeting for worship was followed by a business meeting. Then the children watched, fascinated, as with a creaking noise shutters descended from the ceiling, dividing the room in two so ...
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... asked the convert's familiar question “What shall I do to be saved?” she found the answer lay not in submission but in commitment. During a year of introspection, a year in which she traveled outside New England, encountering new people ...
... asked the convert's familiar question “What shall I do to be saved?” she found the answer lay not in submission but in commitment. During a year of introspection, a year in which she traveled outside New England, encountering new people ...
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... asked that the minutes record their disapproval. Another difference of opinion surfaced on the final morning of the convention, when participants were asked how they preferred to have their names appear in the printed proceedings ...
... asked that the minutes record their disapproval. Another difference of opinion surfaced on the final morning of the convention, when participants were asked how they preferred to have their names appear in the printed proceedings ...
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... asked if her husband couldn't come too. Although the answer was negative, other men whose wives had told them of Angelina's eloquence, presented themselves at the door. By the time the meeting began, her audience of a thousand included ...
... asked if her husband couldn't come too. Although the answer was negative, other men whose wives had told them of Angelina's eloquence, presented themselves at the door. By the time the meeting began, her audience of a thousand included ...
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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