Ahead of Her Time
Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery
$41.92
- Paperback
484 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2010
Summary
In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement’s chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393311310 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393311317 |
| Author: | Dorothy Sterling |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 484 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 612g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 140mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Dorothy Sterling
Dorothy Sterling is a native New Yorker now living on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She has made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha’s Vineyard, and Long Island. She is a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit.
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