| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America. By Beth A. Salerno. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. x, 233 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-87580-338-5.)

Sister Societies opens in 1834 with an account of New Hampshire women braving a threatening mob to hear an antislavery lecture. "The Concord women found the power to challenge the mob in their association with each other," author Beth A. Salerno writes. "Together they could take on not only local troublemakers but the most powerful economic and political institution in the country" (p. 3). Although histories of female abolitionism abound, Salerno contends that women's antislavery work was far more extensive and diverse than previously known and that too little attention has been paid to the experiences of smaller groups such as the society described above. To prove her point, Salerno has, through painstaking research in antislavery archives and publications, identified over two hundred antislavery female associations formed between 1832 and 1855.

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