Dorothy Sterling

Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery

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[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 UniversityIn 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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-324-00030-3
EAN: 9781324000303
Produktnummer: 34248332
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Seitenangabe: 480 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'775 KB

Über den Autor

Dorothy Sterling (1913—2008) was a native New Yorker who lived for many years on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Long Island. She was a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit.