Contents

• Preface / John C. Van Horne
• Introduction / Ruth Bogin and Jean Fran Yellin
• Pt. I. The Female Antislavery Societies. 1. On Their Own Terms: A Historiographical Essay / Nancy A. Hewitt. 2. Abolition’s Conservative Sisters: The Ladies’ New York City Anti-Slavery Societies, 1834-1840 / Amy Swerdlow. 3. The Boston Female Anti- Slavery Society and the Limits of Gender Politics / Debra Gold Hansen. 4. Priorities and Power: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society / Jean R. Soderlund
• Pt. II. Black Women in the Political Culture of Reform. 5. The World the Agitators Made: The Counterculture of Agitation in Urban Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky. 6. "You Have Talents - Only Cultivate Them": Philadelphia’s Black Female Literary Societies and the Abolitionist Crusade / Julie Winch. 7. Benevolence and Antislavery Activity among African American Women in New York and Boston, 1820-1840 / Anne M. Boylan. 8. Difference, Slavery, and Memory: Sojourner Truth in Feminist Abolitionism / Nell Irvin Painter
• Pt. III. Strategies and Tactics. 9. The Female Antislavery Movement: Fighting against Racial Prejudice and Promoting Women’s Rights in Antebellum America / Carolyn Williams. 10. "Let Your Names Be Enrolled": Method and Ideology in Women’s Antislavery Petitioning / Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven. 11. Graphic Discord: Abolitionist and Antiabolitionist Images / Phillip Lapsansky. 12. Abby Kelley and the Process of Liberation / Keith Melder. 13. "A Good Work among the People": The Political Culture of the Boston Antislavery Fair / Lee Chambers-Schiller. 14. By Moral Force Alone: The Antislavery Women and Nonresistance / Margaret Hope Bacon
• Coda: Toward 1848. 15. "Women Who Speak for an Entire Nation": American and British Women at the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840 / Kathryn Kish Sklar