Sister societies

Name: Sister societies
Author: Beth A. Salerno
ISBN: 9780875803388

by Beth A. Salerno (2005)

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"Many nineteenth-century women got their first taste of political activism in small-town societies advocating temperance and other moral causes. Alongside national organizations with charismatic male leaders, these grassroots efforts by ordinary women helped to bring about social reform, change the meaning of political action and, in the process, redefine gender roles. Significantly, women moved from behind-the-scenes moral suasion into the political arena at a time when the question of slavery in the United States was developing from a humanitarian concern into a hotly contested partisan issue. Society met women's entrance into political antislavery with mobs, riots, and sharp debate." "In Sister Societies, Beth Salerno documents ties of kinship and friendship that drew women into the more than 200 exclusively female antislavery societies scattered across the free states. These societies were home to a surprising degree of diversity. Whether black or white, churchgoing or come-outer, radical or conservative, members found temporary unity in a common cause and the bonds of womanhood."--Jacket.

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreSister societies Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Politics & Current Affairs Antislavery movements History Societies Women Women abolitionists Modern Era

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