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• The Weston Sisters

  An American Abolitionist Family

  Chambers, Lee V.

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  The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family's work. The eldest, Maria Weston Chapman, became one of the antislavery movement's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women of the Anti-slavery Movement

  the Weston Sisters

  Taylor, Clare, 1934-

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  Typical of female abolitionists, the Weston sisters wrote, and collected monies and signatures for petitions but rarely spoke in public to advocate this peculiarly feminist cause. Emancipation was won in Britain in 1833 but in the United…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Abolitionist Sisterhood

  Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America

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  A lively exploration of this nineteenth-century reform movement, The Abolitionist Sisterhood includes chapters on the principal female antislavery societies, discussions of black women's political culture in the antebellum North, articles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strained Sisterhood

  Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti- Slavery Society

  Hansen, Debra Gold, 1953-

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  Explores the origins of the feminist equality-versus-difference debate by examining the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which disbanded in 1840 over this very issue. Hansen concludes that many of the issues that estranged abolitionists…Read moreRead more of this annotation