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The Weston sisters an American abolitionist family
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Title
The Weston sisters [electronic resource] : an American abolitionist family / Lee V. Chambers.
ISBN
1469618192
9781469618197
1469618176
9781469618173 (pbk : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: a household band
Married to the cause: the Weston sisters and antislavery
Married to each other: marriage, singlehood, and sororal practice
I must make money: the sororal economy
The cross of my life: social reproduction in the sororal household
As if I had never been absent: the household extends its reach
Yours with the united faculties of Mary and Martha: politics and kin-keeping
Rocking the nation like a cradle: the political import of households
Impudent puppies: sisters in the household of faith
Acknowledgments
Appendix: to be left at Capt. Weston's near wales tavern: on correspondence
Weston genealogy
Antislavery chronology.
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