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Women join the abolition movement in large numbers with increasing influence and visibility: three women's antislavery societies were formed at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Calne; by 1830, there were 40 more.
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F. K. Prochaska, Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1980), 427.
Charlotte Sussman, Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713-1833 (Stanford UP, 2000), 136. |
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5/31/2002
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