The Contexts of Antebellum Reform

1981 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Robert L. Hampel ◽  
William Rorabaugh ◽  
Lewis Perry ◽  
Carl Kaestle ◽  
Maris Vinovskis
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2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-381
Author(s):  
Karl Hagstrom Miller
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2000 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 1741
Author(s):  
Louis S. Gerteis ◽  
John W. Quist
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1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Gerald T. Dunne ◽  
Charles M. Cook
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2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Paul K. Conkin ◽  
Leo P. Hirrel
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2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Robert M. Calhoon ◽  
Leo P. Hirrel ◽  
John W. Quist
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1999 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 909
Author(s):  
Peter J. Wosh ◽  
Leo P. Hirrel
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Author(s):  
Margaret Washington

This chapter considers, through a biracial lens, some essential complexities of antebellum women’s reform. The emphasis is on antislavery and a socioreligious ethos based on the intersectionality of spiritual egalitarianism, civil liberty, and the jeremiad tradition. Black women’s double burden, slavery and race, automatically channeled them as reformers into more expansive visions than whites, already jeopardizing their privileged True Woman status. For disparate reasons, convergence of abolition and equal rights was not a calling that white reform women embraced monolithically. As “doers of the word,” some upheld apostolic tenets of Christian unity. Others chose what eventually became republican individualism and a “segregated sisterhood.” Nonetheless, women of both races were mainsprings in the ultimate success of antebellum reform, the training ground for future struggles for equal rights.


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