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Beth A. SalernoPublication Details
BookNorthern Illinois University Press2005Availability
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Many nineteenth-century women got their first taste of political activism in small-town societies advocating temperance and other moral causes. In Sister Societies, Beth Salerno documents ties of kinship and friendship that drew women into the more than 200 exclusively female antislavery societies scattered across the free states. Salerno looks closely at the ways in which members defined their work as political or moral, as well as how the surrounding society viewed it, to fine-tune our understanding of a critical moment in the history of women’s activism. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Introduction : the power of association
- Antecedents, 1760-1831 : influences and organizations
- Organizational beginnings, 1832-1837 : networks and spheres
- United amid differences, 1836-1837 : conventions and petitions
- Internal divisions, 1837-1840 : debates and choices
- Transition and transformation, 1841-1855 : morality and politics
- Conclusion : Civil War and emancipation, 1861- 1870 : ironies and legacies
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- 0875803385
- 9780875803388
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