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Available
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Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, 1991.
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ISBN
0393030261 / 9780393030266
Description
In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement's chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full story of this principled woman has been told in Dorothy Sterling's compelling biography.
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The biography of abolitionist Abby Kelly Foster who endangered herself by lecturing on the topic around the New England area. The courage of this woman for her cause comes through the book on every page. Foster dedicated herself to the cause to the detriment of her health and livelihood which
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B KELLEY STE