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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... speaker. Yet her greatest contribution was as an organizer. From the hinterlands she sent word back to the ... speakers. In show business parlance, she knew what would play in Peoria, and she prodded Garrison, Phillips, and the ...
... speaker. Yet her greatest contribution was as an organizer. From the hinterlands she sent word back to the ... speakers. In show business parlance, she knew what would play in Peoria, and she prodded Garrison, Phillips, and the ...
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... speaker and hustled her out through a side door. “Nigger bitch” was only one of the epithets leveled at Abby Kelley, white, when, in 1839, she left a teaching job to lecture against slavery. Ministers preached against her, calling her ...
... speaker and hustled her out through a side door. “Nigger bitch” was only one of the epithets leveled at Abby Kelley, white, when, in 1839, she left a teaching job to lecture against slavery. Ministers preached against her, calling her ...
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... speaker who denounced slavery as a sin, called slaveholders “manstealers,” and declared that the Colonization Society was motivated by racism.9 Listening to him speak in Worcester's Town Hall, Abby had been deeply stirred. But in 1832 ...
... speaker who denounced slavery as a sin, called slaveholders “manstealers,” and declared that the Colonization Society was motivated by racism.9 Listening to him speak in Worcester's Town Hall, Abby had been deeply stirred. But in 1832 ...
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... speakers even though the Yearly Meeting had decided to bar them. When William Lloyd Garrison lectured in the meetinghouse on Broad Street, he praised Lynn as a progressive town, and a friend of Abby's congratulated her on “the laudable ...
... speakers even though the Yearly Meeting had decided to bar them. When William Lloyd Garrison lectured in the meetinghouse on Broad Street, he praised Lynn as a progressive town, and a friend of Abby's congratulated her on “the laudable ...
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... speaker whose voice had been damaged by overuse, Weld drilled the agents on the history, philosophy, and profitability of slavery, the biblical arguments for and against the institution, and also introduced them to black speakers, who ...
... speaker whose voice had been damaged by overuse, Weld drilled the agents on the history, philosophy, and profitability of slavery, the biblical arguments for and against the institution, and also introduced them to black speakers, who ...
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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