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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... audiences spellbound with tales of slave children taken from their mothers, women whipped and forced into concubinage. She lectured for two and three hours at a time, then returned the next day and the next, until she had convinced her ...
... audiences spellbound with tales of slave children taken from their mothers, women whipped and forced into concubinage. She lectured for two and three hours at a time, then returned the next day and the next, until she had convinced her ...
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... audiences” of both sexes, she made women aware of their capabilities. Her courage, commitment, and personal warmth brought out hundreds of selfproclaimed “Abby Kelleyites.” She constantly searched for potential leaders, beckoning them ...
... audiences” of both sexes, she made women aware of their capabilities. Her courage, commitment, and personal warmth brought out hundreds of selfproclaimed “Abby Kelleyites.” She constantly searched for potential leaders, beckoning them ...
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... audience. Abby was quickly convinced of the value of Graham's program. On her first Thanksgiving in Lynn she and Anna took a long ride in the country instead of eating a dinner “fit only for the stomach of an ostrich.” In a lifelong ...
... audience. Abby was quickly convinced of the value of Graham's program. On her first Thanksgiving in Lynn she and Anna took a long ride in the country instead of eating a dinner “fit only for the stomach of an ostrich.” In a lifelong ...
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... audiences continued to grow, in the church itself. Occasionally a curious man slipped into a rear pew; once one ... audience of women in a New York church. Eight years earlier Frances (“Fanny”) Wright of Great Britain had lectured ...
... audiences continued to grow, in the church itself. Occasionally a curious man slipped into a rear pew; once one ... audience of women in a New York church. Eight years earlier Frances (“Fanny”) Wright of Great Britain had lectured ...
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... audience were in their twenties and thirties. Twentyfouryearold Mary Grew and Anne Weston, twentyfive, who were approaching with quill pens and inkpots in hand, were among the youngest present; Angelina Grimké was thirtytwo, and ...
... audience were in their twenties and thirties. Twentyfouryearold Mary Grew and Anne Weston, twentyfive, who were approaching with quill pens and inkpots in hand, were among the youngest present; Angelina Grimké was thirtytwo, and ...
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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