Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 |
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Editor:
| Clapp, Elizabeth J. Jeffrey, Julie Roy |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-872521-3 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions.
This volume of eight essays examines the role that religious traditions, practices and beliefs played in women's involvement in the British and American campaigns to abolish slavery during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on women who belonged to the Puritan and dissenting traditions.