6. "You Have Talents—Only Cultivate Them": Philadelphia's Black Female Literary Societies And The Abolitionist Crusade

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xiv
5. Chronology xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: The Female Antislavery Societies
8. 1. On Their Own Terms: A Historiographical Essay 23
9. 2. Abolition's Conservative Sisters: The Ladies' New York City Anti-Slavery Societies, 1834—1840 31
10. 3. The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society And The Limits Of Gender Politics 45
11. 4. Priorities And Power: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society 67
12. Part II: Black Women In The Political Culture Of Reform
13. 5. The World The Agitators Made: The Counterculture Of Agitation In Urban Philadelphia 91
14. 6. "You Have Talents—Only Cultivate Them": Philadelphia's Black Female Literary Societies And The Abolitionist Crusade 101
15. 7. Benevolence And Antislavery Activity Among African American Women In New York And Boston, 1820—1840 119
16. 8. Difference, Slavery, And Memory: Sojourner Truth In Feminist Abolitionism 139
17. Part III: Strategies And Tactics
18. 9. The Female Antislavery Movement: Fighting Against Racial Prejudice And Promoting Women's Rights In Antebellum America 159
19. 10. "Let Your Names Be Enrolled": Method And Ideology In Women's Antislavery Petitioning 179
20. 11. Graphic Discord: Abolitionist And Antiabolitionist Images 201
21. 12. Abby Kelley And The Process Of Liberation 231
22. 13. "A Good Work Among The People": The Political Culture Of The Boston Antislavery Fair 249
23. 14. By Moral Force Alone: The Antislavery Women And Nonresistance 275
24. 15. "Women Who Speak For An Entire Nation": American And British Women At The World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840 301
25. Bibliographical Notes 335
26. Notes On Contributors 341
27. Index 345