Tracing the roots of feminism in the Quaker tradition from the Reformation to the present, this study explores the Quaker religious practices that shaped the spiritual and social structure of both the Society of Friends and the feminist movement

Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America

Bacon, Margaret Hope

Religion & Spirituality

Harpercollins

The Quiet Rebels

Basic Books Inc.,U.S.

Relates the causes, events, and aftermath of the brief battle in 1851 between slave owners and escaped slaves led by William Parker.

Rebellion at Christiana

Children's Books

Crown, Publishers

A biography of Abby Kelley Foster, pacifist, abolitionist, and campaigner for women's rights in the 1840s.

I Speak for My Slave Sister: The Life of Abby Kelley Foster (Women of America)

Ty Crowell Co.

Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Women Crime Criminology)

The first contemporary biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons, a nineteenth-century American social activist. Involved in a broad range of reform activities, she is particularly known for her pioneering efforts to improve the treatment of women prisoners.

Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

State Univ of New York Pr

The first contemporary biography of Abby Hopper Gibbons, a nineteenth-century American social activist. Involved in a broad range of reform activities, she is particularly known for her pioneering efforts to improve the treatment of women prisoners. This first contemporary biography of nineteenth-century American social activist and prison reformer Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801–1893) illuminates women’s changing role in the various reform movements of the period. Beginning as an abolitionist/feminist, Gibbons helped to found the Women’s Prison Association of New York City in 1845. This group established the Isaac T. Hopper Home for discharged women prisoners, the first such institution in the world. Gibbons later became an advocate and lobbyist for improvements in the care of women in the city prisons, for the employment of police matrons, and for the establishment of separate correctional facilities for women prisoners. Though born a pacifist Quaker, Gibbons became a Civil War nurse who protected escaping slaves. During the 1863 Draft Riots, her house in New York City was sacked. Following the war, she was involved in establishing several New York charities. In the 1870s she became a leader and lobbyist for the Moral Reform Movement, both locally and nationally. Her story is intrinsically interesting, and illustrates the political action employed by women of her period.

State University of New York Press

Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810–1898) was one of the nineteenth century’s leading black abolitionists and orators. In this first biography of Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women’s rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform. Citing his role in developing the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee, an all black organization that helped escaped slaves secure passage to the North, the New York Times described Purvis at the time of his death as the president of the Underground Railroad. Voicing his opposition to a decision by the state of Pennsylvania to disenfranchise black voters in 1838, Purvis declared “there is but one race, the human race.” But One Race is the dramatic story of one of the most important figures of his time.

But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis (Excelsior Editions)

Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis. Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810–1898) was one of the nineteenth century’s leading black abolitionists and orators. In this first biography of Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women’s rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform. Citing his role in developing the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee, an all black organization that helped escaped slaves secure passage to the North, the New York Times described Purvis at the time of his death as the president of the Underground Railroad. Voicing his opposition to a decision by the state of Pennsylvania to disenfranchise black voters in 1838, Purvis declared “there is but one race, the human race.” But One Race is the dramatic story of one of the most important figures of his time.

Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott

A compelling biography of the determined Quaker pacifist vividly portrays her lifelong battle against slavery, poverty, war, and the oppression of women during the nineteenth century

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Walker Co

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Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America

Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America

The Quiet Rebels

Rebellion at Christiana

I Speak for My Slave Sister: The Life of Abby Kelley Foster (Women of America)

Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology)

Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Women Crime Criminology)

But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis (Excelsior Editions)

But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis (Excelsior Editions)

Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott