Stacey M Robertson

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1) Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest

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English

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Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women helped build...

2) Betsy Mix Cowles: champion of equality

Author

Robertson, Stacey M

Series

Lives of American women

Publisher

Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

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"Betsy Mix Cowles--a bold reformer whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass, Abby Kelley, and William Lloyd Garrison--is a brilliant example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism, Cowles also took up the cause of women's rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women's access to education, equal rights, and independence in the pre-Civil War era. The life of this devoted...