"For the Sake of Suffering Kansas": Lydia Maria Child, Gender, and the Politics of the 1850s

Kellow, Margaret M. R.

doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0222

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1993

DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0222

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"For the Sake of Suffering Kansas": Lydia Maria Child, Gender, and the Politics of the 1850s

Margaret M. R. Kellow¹

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Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography

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The past 20 years have seen substantial developments in the historiography on women and abolitionism in the United States. These include a focus on the experience of African American women both as activists and as objects of the abolitionist movement. Recent studies explore the ways in which religion inspired and shaped American women's commitment to ending slavery. Important work has been done on the ways in which antislavery women functioned as political actors and the ways in which their efforts influenced antebellum American politics. Abolition historiography has benefitted from the Atlantic perspective as studies have explored the transnational networks created by British and American women and comparisons highlight new aspects of American women's experience in abolitionism. Lastly, studies of women and abolition from each of these perspectives have complicated and problematized the grand narrative of 19th‐century American women's history which enshrined a “path from antislavery to feminism” as a critical consciousness‐raising experience which inspired American women to take up the quest for their own rights.

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Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography

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"A Warm Politition and Devotedly Attached to the Democratic Party": Catharine Read Williams, Politics, and Literature in Antebellum America

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In order to demonstrate the persistence of "female politicians" in the antebellum period, this article explores Catherine Read Williams's use of publication to advance her partisan agenda. A staunch yet unlikely Democrat, Williams engaged in politics and used publishing to promote Democratic positions on controversial issues such as slavery and Indian removal. In addition, Williams employed history to emphasize the strong and politically active role of women in the American past. In Rhode Island's 1842 Dorr Rebellion, Williams took a fervent public stance in favor of expanding suffrage to all white men. At a time when it was unacceptable for women to be publicly partisan, her confrontational style rendered her exceptional from even politically engaged women of her era. She pushed the gendered boundaries of Jacksonianism by aggressively supporting Democratic policy, depicting heroic women in her historical narratives, and commanding a political presence in her community. Williams's career as a historian and bold political activist reveals the presence of public female partisanship in American political culture during the antebellum period.

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"For the Sake of Suffering Kansas": Lydia Maria Child, Gender, and the Politics of the 1850s

Cited by 2 publications

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Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography

Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography

"A Warm Politition and Devotedly Attached to the Democratic Party": Catharine Read Williams, Politics, and Literature in Antebellum America

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