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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... 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 listeners to make themselves responsible for bringing about change ...
... 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 listeners to make themselves responsible for bringing about change ...
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... mother whose friends criticized my “desertion” of my children. I shared her pain at leaving her daughter and cheered on her efforts to provide love and guidance at a distance. Today, in a different time, “humanitymongering” is out of ...
... mother whose friends criticized my “desertion” of my children. I shared her pain at leaving her daughter and cheered on her efforts to provide love and guidance at a distance. Today, in a different time, “humanitymongering” is out of ...
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... mother was Wing Kelley's second wife. A youthful indiscretion had led to Kelley's hasty marriage in 1792 and the birth of a daughter, Nancy, six months later, a not uncommon occurrence in eighteenthcentury Massachusetts. A second ...
... mother was Wing Kelley's second wife. A youthful indiscretion had led to Kelley's hasty marriage in 1792 and the birth of a daughter, Nancy, six months later, a not uncommon occurrence in eighteenthcentury Massachusetts. A second ...
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... mother. She lugged pails of water for the weekly wash and spread the clean clothes on bushes to dry; clotheslines had not yet come into use. She learned to mold candles and boil soap, to knit socks, hem aprons, churn butter.5 In ...
... mother. She lugged pails of water for the weekly wash and spread the clean clothes on bushes to dry; clotheslines had not yet come into use. She learned to mold candles and boil soap, to knit socks, hem aprons, churn butter.5 In ...
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... mother would have nodded approval.7 Diana's teachings were reinforced by attendance at Friends' meetings on First days when the congregation sat in silence, sometimes for an hour, until a man or woman was moved to speak. There was no ...
... mother would have nodded approval.7 Diana's teachings were reinforced by attendance at Friends' meetings on First days when the congregation sat in silence, sometimes for an hour, until a man or woman was moved to speak. There was no ...
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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