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WOMEN, DISSENT, AND ANTI-SLAVERY – IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1790 1865 This page intentionally left blank Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain – and America, 1790 1865 Edited by ELIZABETH J. CLAPP AND JULIE ROY JEFFREY 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork #OxfordUniversityPress2011 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2011 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby MPGBooksGroup,BodminandKing'sLynn ISBN 978–0–19–958548–9 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Foreword This study of Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America is the third volume to result from the work of the Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies. Established in September 2004, the Centre is a collabo- rationbetweentheSchoolofEnglishandDrama,QueenMary,Universityof London, and Dr Williams’s Library, Gordon Square, London. Its objectives are to promote the use of the Library’s unique holdings of Puritan, Pro- testant nonconformist and dissenting books and manuscripts; to encourage research into and dissemination of these resources; and to increase know- ledge and understanding of the importance of Puritanism and Protestant dissent to English society and literature from the sixteenth century to the present. To further these aims the Centre has developed an extensive programme of conferences, seminars, workshops, and publications. The annual one-day conferences have led to five volumes of essays: Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian (2008), and Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales (2011), both edited by Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes, and published by Oxford University Press; and now Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery, edited by Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey. Dissent and the Bible in Britain, 1650–1950, edited by Scott Mandelbrote and Michael Ledger-Lomas, is also forthcoming from the Press; Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740–1830, edited byFelicityJamesandIanInkster,isforthcomingfromCambridgeUniversity Press. In addition the Centre’s postgraduates have published the following electronic editions online: The Letters of Joseph Priestley to Theophilus Lindsey 1769–1794, edited by Simon Mills (2007); and A Bibliography of theWritingsofWilliamHazlitt1737–1820(2009),andNewCollege,Hackney (1786–96): A Selection of Printed and Archival Sources (2010), both by Stephen Burley. The Centre’s Dissenting Academies Project, in association with the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History, is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It will produce both print and online publications: A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660–1860, edited by Rivers and Wykes, with Knud Haakonssen and Richard Whatmore as associate editors, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and two relational databases to be published online on the Centre’s website. The Centre is also supporting the publication of a new vi Foreword editionofReliquiaeBaxterianaebyNeilKeeble,JohnCoffey,andTimCooper, tobepublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,aswellasanumberofothermajor initiatives such as an edition of Henry Crabb Robinson’s diary and correspondence. IsabelRivers DavidL.Wykes TheDrWilliams’sCentreforDissentingStudies,London Contents Foreword v ListofContributors ix Introduction 1 ElizabethJ.Clapp 1. ComplicatingtheStory:ReligionandGenderinHistorical WritingonBritishandAmericanAnti-Slavery 20 DavidTurley 2. MarthaGurneyandtheAnti-SlaveTradeMovement,1788–94 44 TimothyWhelan 3. ‘WeOughttoObeyGodratherthanMan’:Women,Anti-Slavery, andNonconformistReligiousCultures 66 AlisonTwells 4. TheDissentingVoiceofElizabethHeyrick:AnExploration oftheLinksBetweenGender,ReligiousDissent,andAnti-Slavery Radicalism 88 ClareMidgley 5. Immediatism,Dissent,andGender:Womenandthe SentimentalizationofTransatlanticAnti-SlaveryAppeals 111 CarolLasser 6. WomenAbolitionistsandtheDissentingTradition 132 JulieRoyJeffrey 7. ‘OntheSideofRighteousness’:Women,theChurch, andAbolition 155 StaceyRobertson 8. WritingAgainstSlavery:HarrietBeecherStowe 175 JudieNewman Bibliography 197 Index 209 This page intentionally left blank List of Contributors ElizabethJ.ClappisSeniorLecturerinAmericanHistoryattheUniversityof Leicester.HerpublicationsincludeMothersofAllChildren:WomenReformers andtheRiseoftheJuvenileCourtsinProgressiveEraAmerica(1998),together withseveralarticlesonwomen’sactivismwhichhaveappearedinsuch journalsastheJournalofAmericanStudies,JournaloftheEarlyRepublicand AmericanNineteenthCenturyHistory.Shehasrecentlycompletedastudyof MrsAnneRoyallandthepoliticalcultureoftheearlyAmericanrepublic. JulieRoyJeffreyisProfessorofHistoryatGoucherCollege,Baltimore. ShewasrecentlytheJohnAdamsChairinAmericanHistoryattheUniversity ofUtrecht(FulbrightDistinguishedChair)andhasalsoreceivedaNational EndowmentfortheHumanitiesfellowship.HerpublicationsincludeThe GreatSilentArmyofAbolitionism:OrdinaryWomenintheAntislavery Movement(1998)—awardedtheChoiceAwardforAcademicBookof ExcellenceandhonourablementionfortheFrederickDouglassprize—and AbolitionistsRemember:AntislaveryAutobiographiesandtheUnfinished WorkofEmancipation(2008),aswellasnumerousarticlesandessays.She isalsotheco-authorofTheAmericanPeople:TheHistoryofaNationand aSociety. CarolLasserisProfessorofAmericanHistoryatOberlinCollege,Ohio,and DirectorofOCEAN:theOberlinCollegeEducationalAllianceNetwork.She haswrittenwidelyonwomenandgenderinnineteenth-centuryAmerica.Her publicationsincludeEducatingMenandWomenTogether:Coeducationina ChangingWorld(1987);FriendsandSisters:LettersbetweenLucyStoneand AntoinetteBrownBlackwell,1846–1893(co-editor,withMarleneD.Merrill, 1987),aswellasnumerousarticlesandessaysinsuchjournalsasGender& History,Signs,andtheJournaloftheEarlyRepublic. ClareMidgleyisResearchProfessoratSheffieldHallamUniversity.Sheis theauthorofFeminismandEmpire:WomenActivistsinImperialBritain, 1790–1865(2007);GenderandImperialism(1998);andWomenAgainst Slavery:TheBritishCampaigns,1780–1870(1992),aswellasnumerous articlesandessays.ShehasalsoservedasaneditorforGender&Historyand Women’sHistoryReview.ShehasrecentlybecomePresidentofthe InternationalFederationforResearchinWomen’sHistory. JudieNewmanisaFellowoftheEnglishAssociation,andProfessorof AmericanStudiesattheUniversityofNottingham.Shehaspublishedwidely onAmericanandotherliteratures.Sheeditedthefirstmoderneditionof
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