Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation [electronic resource] /
edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart.
- Yale University Press, c2007.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 385 p.) : ill., map.
Based on lectures from a conference in Oct. 2002 at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Declaring equality : sisterhood and slavery / Sisterhood, slavery, and sovereignty : transnational antislavery work and women's rights movements in the United States during the twentieth century / How (and why) the analogy of marriage with slavery provided the springboard for women's rights demands in France, 1640-1848 / Frauenemancipation and beyond : the use of the concept of emancipation by early European feminists / Women's mobilization in the era of slave emancipation : some Anglo-French comparisons / British abolition and feminism in transatlantic perspective / Sarah Forten's anti-slavery networks / Incidents abroad : Harriet Jacobs and the transatlantic movement / "Like hot lead to pour on the Americans ..." : Sarah Parker Remond-- from Salem, Mass., to the British Isles / Literary transnationalism and diasporic history : Frances Watkins Harper's "Fancy sketches," 1859-60 / "The throne of my heart" : religion, oratory, and transatlantic community in Angelina Grimké's launching of women's rights, 1828-1838 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Redemption of a heretic : Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American abolitionism / "Seeking a larger liberty" : remapping first wave feminism / Ernestine Rose's Jewish origins and the varieties of Euro-American emancipation in 1848 / Writing for true womanhood : African-American women's writings and the antislavery struggle / Enacting emancipation : African American women abolitionists at Oberlin College and the quest for empowerment, equality, and respectability / At the boundaries of abolitionism, feminism, and black nationalism : the activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary / David Brion Davis -- Judith Resnik -- Karen Offen -- Bonnie S. Anderson -- Seymour Drescher -- Clare Midgley -- Julie Winch -- Jean Fagan Yellin -- Willi Coleman -- Carla L. Peterson -- Deborah A. Logan -- Nancy A. Hewitt -- Ellen Carol DuBois -- Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- Carol Lasser -- Jane Rhodes.
Women abolitionists--History--United States--19th century--Congresses. African American women abolitionists--History--19th century--Congresses. Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century--Congresses. Women's rights--History--United States--19th century--Congresses. Women abolitionists--History--Great Britain--19th century--Congresses. Women abolitionists--History--Europe--19th century--Congresses. Antislavery movements--History--19th century--Congresses. Women's rights--History--19th century--Congresses. Women abolitionists--History--United States--19th century. African American women abolitionists--History--19th century. Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century. Women's rights--History--United States--19th century. Women abolitionists--History--Great Britain--19th century. Women abolitionists--History--Europe--19th century. Antislavery movements--History--19th century. Women's rights--History--19th century. Electronic books. HISTORY.
United States--Relations--Europe--Congresses. Europe--Relations--United States--Congresses. United States--Relations--Europe. Europe--Relations--United States.