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The Religious World of Antislavery Women: Spirituality in the Lives of Five Abolitionist Lecturers. By Anna M. Speicher. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8156-2807-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8156-2850-1.)

Anna M. Speicher's study of five women abolitionist lecturers—Lucretia Mott, Abby Kelley Foster, Sallie Holley, and Sarah and Angelina Grimké—offers a valuable addition to the growing literature on women abolitionists. Following Robert H. Abzug, she grounds their reform activism in religious vision, and like Ann Braude she emphasizes religion's potential to inspire social radicalism. Speicher also extends Lawrence J. Friedman's suggestion that abolitionist community was rooted in intimate personal relationships. . . .


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