"Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On their own terms : a historiographical essay / by Nancy A. Hewitt -- Abolition's conservative sisters : the Ladies' New York City Anti-Slavery societies, 1834-1840 / by Amy Swerdlow -- The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and the limits of gender politics / by Debra Gold Hansen -- Priorities and power : the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society / Jean R. Soderlund -- The world the agitators made : the counterculture of agitation in urban Philadelphia / by Emma Jones Lapsansky -- "You have talents-- only cultivate them?" : Philadelphia's black female literary societies and the abolitionist crusade / by Julie Winch -- Benevolence and antislavery activity among African American women in New York and Boston, 1820-1840 / by Anne M. Boylan -- Difference, slavery and memory : Sojourner Truth in feminist abolitionism / by Nell Irvin Painter -- The female antislavery movement : fighting against racial prejudice and promoting women's rights in antebellum America / by Carolyn Williams -- "Let your names be enrolled" : method and ideology in women's antislavery petitioning / by Deborah Bingham Van Broeckhoven -- Graphic discord : abolitionist and antiabolitionist images / by Phillip Lapsansky -- Abbey Kelley and the process of liberation / by Keith Melder -- "A good work among the people" : the political culture of the Boston antislavery fair / by Lee Chambers-Schiller -- By moral force alone : the antislavery women and nonresistance / by Margaret Hope Bacon -- "Women who speak for an entire nation" : American and British women at the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840 / by Kathryn Kish Sklar.