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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Beth A. Salerno. Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 233. $38.00.
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| The relationship between the antislavery and women's rights movements has been the subject of much recent scholarship. Lori D. Ginzberg, Judith Wellman, Michael D. Pierson, Julie Roy Jeffrey, and several other historians have lately challenged traditional accounts that depict activist women walking a straight path from benevolence campaigns to antislavery activity and thence to women's rights crusades. Instead, these scholars have offered more nuanced interpretations, exploring how kin networks, property rights, citizenship debates, and religious activity all influenced antebellum contests over slavery and sexual equality. In tracing the origins, intentions, activities, and fate of over two hundred women's antislavery organizations, Beth A. Salerno makes an important contribution to this dynamic field of inquiry. |
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