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The Weston sisters : an American abolitionist family / Lee V. Chambers.

Author/creator Chambers, Lee V.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Descriptionpages cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction: a household band -- Married to the cause: the Weston sisters and antislavery -- Married to each other: marriage, singlehood, and sororal practice -- I must make money: the sororal economy -- The cross of my life: social reproduction in the sororal household -- As if I had never been absent: the household extends its reach -- Yours with the united faculties of Mary and Martha: politics and kin-keeping -- Rocking the nation like a cradle: the political import of households -- Impudent puppies: sisters in the household of faith -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: to be left at Capt. Weston's near wales tavern: on correspondence -- Weston genealogy -- Antislavery chronology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014024701
ISBN9781469618173 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN1469618176 (pbk : alk. paper)

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