Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865

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As historians have steadily come to recognize, the involvement of women used to be central to the anti-slavery cause in both Britain and the USA. Like their male counterparts, women abolitionists didn’t all speak with one voice. A few of the major differences between women were their religious affiliations, an aspect of their commitment that has not been studied in detail. Yet it’s clear that the desire to live out and practice their religious beliefs inspired most of the women who participated in anti-slavery activities in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This book examines the part that the traditions, practices, and beliefs of English Protestant dissent and the American Puritan and evangelical traditions played in women’s anti-slavery activism. Focusing particularly on Baptist, Congregational, Presbyterian and Unitarian women, the essays on this volume move from accounts of individual women’s participation in the movement as printers and writers, to assessments of the negotiations and the occasional conflicts between different denominational groups and their anti-slavery impulses. Together the essays on this volume explore how the tradition of English Protestant Dissent shaped the American abolitionist movement, and the more than a few ways wherein women belonging to the different denominations on both sides of the Atlantic drew on their religious beliefs to influence the direction of their anti-slavery movements. The collection provides a nuanced understanding of why these women felt compelled to fight for the end of slavery in their respective countries.

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