Tilden G. Edelstein | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Book Review

Parker Pillsbury: Radical Abolitionist, Male Feminist. By Stacey M. Robertson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xvii, 232 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3634-6.)

Publication of Stacey M. Robertson's authoritative biography is especially appropriate. Parker Pillsbury has been noticed by historians (mostly very critically), but he had not previously been the subject of a full-length biography, nor is he included in the recent, comprehensive twenty-four-volume American National Biography. 1

Conceding that historians have described Pillsbury as "zealous at best, and fanatical at worst," Robertson convincingly depicts him as a noteworthy agitator. For some twenty-five years before the Civil War, he joined the radical abolitionists Abby Kelley Foster and Stephen Symonds Foster in speaking and writing against slavery and also closely allied himself with William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. Like Stephen Foster, he was physically attacked both in churches for disrupting services and at antislavery meetings for exceeding the intense speeches of many abolitionist colleagues. An early advocate for women's rights, he joined Lucy Stone and throughout the nineteenth century vigorously supported Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. He was often dubbed, as were his male platform colleagues, an "Aunt Nancy" man. . . .

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