Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Contents
Complicating the story: religion and gender in historical writing on British and American anti-slavery / David Turley -- Martha Gurney and the anti-slave trade movement, 1788-94 / Timothy Whelan -- 'We ought to obey God rather than man': women, anti-slavery, and nonconformist religious cultures / Alison Twells -- The dissenting voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: an exploration of the links between gender, religious dissent, and anti-slavery radicalism / Clare Midgley -- Immediatism, dissent, and gender: women and the sentimentalism of transatlantic anti-slavery appeals / Carol Lasser -- Women abolitionists and the dissenting tradition / Julie Roy Jeffrey -- 'On the side of righteousness': women, the church, and abolition / Stacey Robertson -- Writing against slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe / Judie Newman.