Author: Frances WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen
Author: Frances WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Robert Dale Owen Unmasked by His Own Pen, Showing His Unqualified Approbation of a Most Obscenely Indelicate Work Entitled What is Love, Or Every Woman's Book...
Author: Franny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen
Author: Frances WrightFanny Wright
Author: Celia MorrisPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Frances Wright dared to take Thomas Jefferson seriously when he wrote, ' All men are created equal, ' and to assume that 'men' meant 'women' as well. Born in Scotland in 1795, she came to the United States in 1818, and spent half her adult life here, she died in Ohio in 1852, ending a lifetime devoted to promoting equality among the races and the sexes. The Marquis de Lafayette called her his adored Fanny and paid court so openly that he scandalized even his own family. The first woman to act publicly to oppose slavery. The pampered daughter of a highly stratified class society, she cast her lot with the working people, risking her health, her fortune, and her good name to realize the promise of the Declaration of Independence. With a boldness rare in women of her day, she attacked in print and in lecture halls throughout the country an economic system that allowed not only black slavery in the South but what she called wage slavery in the North. With the exception perhaps of Walt Whitman, she wrote more powerfully of sexual experience than any other American the nineteenth century.
The Science of Abolition
Author: Eric HerschthalPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300236808
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders "While recent historical literature has shown the complicity of the early science of man in the defense of slavery, Herschthal unearths an equally long intellectual tradition of antislavery science. This innovative book is timely, when science itself is under assault."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders' scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, The Science of Abolition shows how Black and white scientists and abolitionists drew upon a host of scientific disciplines--from chemistry, botany, and geology, to medicine and technology--to portray slaveholders as the enemies of progress. From the 1770s through the 1860s, scientists and abolitionists in Britain and the United States argued that slavery stood in the way of scientific progress, blinded slaveholders to scientific evidence, and prevented enslavers from adopting labor-saving technologies that might eradicate enslaved labor. While historians increasingly highlight slavery's centrality to the modern world, fueling the rise of capitalism, science, and technology, few have asked where the myth of slavery's backwardness comes from in the first place. This book contends that by routinely portraying slaveholders as the enemies of science, abolitionists and scientists helped generate that myth.
Biography, notes and political letters of Frances Wright D'Arusmont
Author: afterwards D'ARUSMONT WRIGHT (Frances)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers
Author: Therese Boos DykemanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792359562
Category : Women philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Chronicler of Barsetshire
Author: R. H. SuperPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472081394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
A thorough portrayal of the events of Trollope's long and productive life
A Catalogue of Old, Rare and Curious Books
Author: George E. Littlefield (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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