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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... daughter, Alla, yet weaned her early so that she could return to the struggle, becoming “quite sick”5 when she had to leave her in another's care. The Fosters' farm in Worcester, Massachusetts, was both a station on the Underground ...
... daughter, Alla, yet weaned her early so that she could return to the struggle, becoming “quite sick”5 when she had to leave her in another's care. The Fosters' farm in Worcester, Massachusetts, was both a station on the Underground ...
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... daughter's reminiscences, written four years after Abby's death, remain the only contemporary accounts. Her life and its impact on her society have been pieced together from six or seven hundred contemporary letters and from the weekly ...
... daughter's reminiscences, written four years after Abby's death, remain the only contemporary accounts. Her life and its impact on her society have been pieced together from six or seven hundred contemporary letters and from the weekly ...
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... daughter and cheered on her efforts to provide love and guidance at a distance. Today, in a different time, “humanitymongering” is out of fashion, but I foresee the day when another generation will appreciate the joy of working together ...
... daughter and cheered on her efforts to provide love and guidance at a distance. Today, in a different time, “humanitymongering” is out of fashion, but I foresee the day when another generation will appreciate the joy of working together ...
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... spoke with a louder voice than her own.1 Abby Kelley was born in the little village of Pelham, in western Massachusetts, on January 15, 1811. She was the seventh daughter of Wing Kelley, a farmer whose ancestors had emigrated from Ireland ...
... spoke with a louder voice than her own.1 Abby Kelley was born in the little village of Pelham, in western Massachusetts, on January 15, 1811. She was the seventh daughter of Wing Kelley, a farmer whose ancestors had emigrated from Ireland ...
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... daughter, Nancy, six months later, a not uncommon occurrence in eighteenthcentury Massachusetts. A second daughter, Lydia, followed in 1794. Then their mother died, and Kelley, after some years as a widower, married Diana Daniels. * Her ...
... daughter, Nancy, six months later, a not uncommon occurrence in eighteenthcentury Massachusetts. A second daughter, Lydia, followed in 1794. Then their mother died, and Kelley, after some years as a widower, married Diana Daniels. * Her ...
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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