Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation

Yale University Press

Contents

List of Illustrations.....................................................................................................................................................................xIntroduction  Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart.................................................................................................................................xiPart I: Context-Then and Today1. Declaring Equality: Sisterhood and Slavery  David Brion Davis..........................................................................................................................32. Sisterhood, Slavery, and Sovereignty: Transnational Antislavery Work and Women's Rights Movements in the United States During the Twentieth Century  Judith Resnik.....................19Part II: The Impact of Antislavery on French, German, and British Feminism3. How (and Why) the Analogy of Marriage with Slavery Provided the Springboard for Women's Rights Demands in France, 1640-1848  Karen Offen...............................................574. Frauenemancipation and Beyond: The Use of the Concept of Emancipation by Early European Feminists  Bonnie S. Anderson..................................................................825. Women's Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons  Seymour Drescher.................................................................................986. British Abolition and Feminism in Transatlantic Perspective  Clare Midgley.............................................................................................................121Part III: The Transatlantic Activism of African-American Women Abolitionists7. Sarah Forten's Anti-Slavery Networks  Julie Winch......................................................................................................................................1438. Incidents Abroad: Harriet Jacobs and the Transatlantic Movement  Jean Fagan Yellin.....................................................................................................1589. "Like Hot Lead to Pour on the Americans ...": Sarah Parker Remond-From Salem, Mass., to the British Isles  Willi Coleman...............................................................17310. Literary Transnationalism and Diasporic History: Frances Watkins Harper's "Fancy Sketches," 1859-60  Carla L. Peterson................................................................189Part IV: Transatlantic Influences on the Emergence of Women's Rights in the United States11. "The Throne of My Heart": Religion, Oratory, and Transatlantic Community in Angelina Grimk��'s Launching of Women's Rights, 1828-1838  Kathryn Kish Sklar..............................21112. The Redemption of a Heretic: Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American Abolitionism  Deborah A. Logan......................................................................................24213. "Seeking a Larger Liberty": Remapping First Wave Feminism  Nancy A. Hewitt............................................................................................................26614. Ernestine Rose's Jewish Origins and the Varieties of Euro-American Emancipation in 1848  Ellen Carol DuBois...........................................................................279Part V: Transcultural Activism Against Slavery by African-American Women15. Writing for True Womanhood: African-American Women's Writings and the Antislavery Struggle  Erica Armstrong Dunbar....................................................................29916. Enacting Emancipation: African American Women Abolitionists at Oberlin College and the Quest for Empowerment, Equality, and Respectability  Carol Lasser..............................31917. At the Boundaries of Abolitionism, Feminism, and Black Nationalism: The Activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary  Jane Rhodes..................................................................346List of Contributors......................................................................................................................................................................367Index.....................................................................................................................................................................................369

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