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Wendy Hamand Venet's book, Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Aboli-tionists and the Civil War, fills an important historiographical gap by tracing the activities of familiar antebellum abolitionists into the years 1861 to 1865. Her definition of politics, however, leads Venet to underrepresent
17 Φεβ 2016 · Nevertheless, female abolitionists learned the tactics and strategies that would play an integral role in the women's rights movement that emerged with renewed emphasis in the postwar period. Learn how the Civil War challenged the "Cult of True Womanhood."
When abolitionists Sarah and Angelina Grimke faced efforts to silence them because they were women, they saw parallels between their own situation and that of the slaves. The Grimkes began to argue that all women and men were created by God as “equal moral beings” and entitled to the same rights.
Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom has a collection of 189 objects related to the Commission’s inquiry. The vast majority of them are responses to their survey, written by White people the Commission identified as having special knowledge of freedmen.
The impulse to overthrow societal constraints and the struggle for equal opportunity were critical concerns for many women in the 1860s. The abolitionist movement flourished alongside female activism, and during the decades leading up to the Civil War, women increasingly advocated for women’s rights, particularly suffrage.
16 Νοε 2021 · In this meticulously researched study, Thavolia Glymph unearths the voices and experiences of women during the American Civil War to show the different dimensions of war and the conflicts that entangled their lives with the battle to preserve the Union and end slavery.
27 Οκτ 2009 · The abolitionist movement was the effort to end slavery, led by famous abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and John Brown.
