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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... speeches alerted northerners to slavery's evils and the conflict between the institution and the nation's democratic ideals. But while the two men wrote and spoke in New England, it remained for Abby Kelley and a hardy group of ...
... speeches alerted northerners to slavery's evils and the conflict between the institution and the nation's democratic ideals. But while the two men wrote and spoke in New England, it remained for Abby Kelley and a hardy group of ...
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... speech at meetings, tugging at people's heartstrings until she had loosed their purse strings and setting an example of selfsacrifice by working without pay and even mortgaging her home when money was needed. A radical member of the ...
... speech at meetings, tugging at people's heartstrings until she had loosed their purse strings and setting an example of selfsacrifice by working without pay and even mortgaging her home when money was needed. A radical member of the ...
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... speeches, songs, and general camaraderie. In keeping with Quaker custom, which was widely adopted by the abolitionists, I often use the first names of Abby Kelley and her friends. Only William Lloyd Garrison was customarily addressed as ...
... speeches, songs, and general camaraderie. In keeping with Quaker custom, which was widely adopted by the abolitionists, I often use the first names of Abby Kelley and her friends. Only William Lloyd Garrison was customarily addressed as ...
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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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Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery Dorothy Sterling Limited preview - 1991 |
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