Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest

by Stacey Robertson

Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin helped build a vibrant antislavery movement in the Old Northwest.

Stacey Robertson argues that the environment of the Old Northwest--with its own complicated history of slavery and racism--created a uniquely collaborative and flexible approach to abolitionism. Western women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622173
• ISBN13: 9781469622170
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"