Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters

170 Pages·1995·8.82 MB·English

by  Clare Taylor (auth.)

WOMEN OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
STUDIES IN GENDER HISTORY
Recent years have shown that the study of gender is too important to
be ignored. By challenging long-accepted approaches, categories and
priorities, gender history has necessitated a change in the historical
terrain. This series seeks to publish the latest and best research which
continues to restore women to history and history to women, and to
encourage the development of a new channel of scholarship.
Women of the
Anti-Slavery
Movement
The Weston Sisters
Clare Taylor
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St. Martin's Press
© Clare Taylor 1995
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995
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ISBN 978-1-349-23768-5 ISBN 978-1-349-23766-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-23766-1
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ISBN 978-0-312-12319-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Taylor, Clare, 1934-
Women of the anti-slavery movement: the Weston sisters /Clare
Taylor.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-12319-2
1. Antislavery movements-United States. 2. Women abolitionists
-Massachusetts. 3. Weston family. 4. Boston (Mass.)-History-
-Antislavery movement, 1830-1863. I. Title.
E449.T24 1995
305.8'00973-dc20 94-24881
CIP
For Eric
Contents
Map of Boston, 1838 vm
Acknowledgements x
Introduction x1
The Westons of Massachusetts 1
2 The Weston Sisters and the Anti-Slavery Movement 17
3 Right and Wrong in Boston 27
4 Women of Boston and Norwich 43
5 Maria Weston Chapman and her Anti-Slavery
Mission to Europe 61
fi The Liberty Bell 87
7 The Care of Children 99
8 The Weston Legacy 109
Notes 121
Bibliography 141
Index 155
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Acknowledgements
I should like to thank all those people, libraries and institu
tions who gave help during the course of this work, too many
to be named individually, and including my husband and
family. Thanks especially go to Professor George Shepperson;
Professor Frank Thistlethwaite; Professor Michael Heale,
Professor Peter Parish; Professor Peter Thomas; Professor
David B. Davis; Professor Betty Fladeland; Professor Kathryn
Kish Sklar; Professor Deborah Van Broekhoven; Professor
Lee Chambers-Schiller; Mrs Dorothy Sterling; the Boston
Public Library, Massachusetts; London libraries including
Friends House Library; the Fawcett Library; Dr Williams
Library; the Institute of Historical Research, London Univer
sity; the Archives, Baring Brothers; also Harvard University
and its Libraries; the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College;
Columbia University Library; Cornell University Library; and
thanks too to the United States Information Service, London,
for a travel award.
My thanks also to Giovanna Davitti at Macmillan, and to
Anne Rafique, for editorial guidance.
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