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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... Speak for My Slave Sister, published in 1984, and Jane H. Pease's doctoral dissertation, “The Freshness of Fanaticism: Abby Kelley Foster: An Essay in Reform,” completed in 1969. † In The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison, John L ...
... Speak for My Slave Sister, published in 1984, and Jane H. Pease's doctoral dissertation, “The Freshness of Fanaticism: Abby Kelley Foster: An Essay in Reform,” completed in 1969. † In The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison, John L ...
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... speaking she dodged rotten eggs, rum bottles, and the contents of outhouses. Still, she continued on her way, cheerful and determined, until the guns of Fort Sumter spoke with a louder voice than her own.1 Abby Kelley was born in the ...
... speaking she dodged rotten eggs, rum bottles, and the contents of outhouses. Still, she continued on her way, cheerful and determined, until the guns of Fort Sumter spoke with a louder voice than her own.1 Abby Kelley was born in the ...
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... speak. There was no Quaker meetinghouse in Worcester until 1837, but when weather and farm chores permitted, the Kelleys crowded into their farm wagon for the long drive to Uxbridge. There Abby, doubtless in handmedown gray dress and ...
... speak. There was no Quaker meetinghouse in Worcester until 1837, but when weather and farm chores permitted, the Kelleys crowded into their farm wagon for the long drive to Uxbridge. There Abby, doubtless in handmedown gray dress and ...
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... speak except during meetings for worship on First and Fifth days, but the wooden fence had knots that easily became knotholes, permitting whispered conversations and the passing back and forth of notes. Like students everywhere, they ...
... speak except during meetings for worship on First and Fifth days, but the wooden fence had knots that easily became knotholes, permitting whispered conversations and the passing back and forth of notes. Like students everywhere, they ...
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... speak of her “old maid ways.”6 Graham's teachings also eased the way for Abby and her circle to have friendships with men. The men they associated with across the aisle in the meetinghouse on First days, at lectures in the Young Men's ...
... speak of her “old maid ways.”6 Graham's teachings also eased the way for Abby and her circle to have friendships with men. The men they associated with across the aisle in the meetinghouse on First days, at lectures in the Young Men's ...
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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