Elizabeth J. Clapp received her BA and PhD from the University of London. She has taught for a number of years at the University of Leicester where she is a Senior Lecturer in American History. She has published a book and several articles on women's activism in nineteenth-century America and has recently completed a study of Mrs. Anne Royall and the political culture of the early American republic.Julie Roy Jeffrey received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD from Rice University. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and has held Fulbright awards for teaching in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She works on women and reform in the nineteenth century United States.

• Introduction ; 1. Complicating the Story: Religion and Gender in the Historical Representation of British and American Anti-Slavery ; 2. Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94 ; 3. 'We Ought to Obey God rather than Man:' Women, Anti-Slavery, and Nonconformist Religious Cultures ; 4. The Dissenting Voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: An Exploration of the Links Between Gender, Religious Dissent, and Anti-Slavery Radicalism ; 5. Immediatism, Dissent, and Gender: Women and the Sentimentalization of Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Appeals ; 6. Women Abolitionists and the Dissenting Tradition ; 7. 'On the Side of Righteousness:' Women, the Church, and Abolition ; 8. Writing Against Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe

The book provides a fascinating, and very detailed, insight into the role of women, particularly those from Puritan and dissenting traditions in the anti-slavery movement.

Elizabeth J. Clapp received her BA and PhD from the University of London. She has taught for a number of years at the University of Leicester where she is a Senior Lecturer in American History. She has published a book and several articles on women's activism in nineteenth-century America and has recently completed a study of Mrs. Anne Royall and the political culture of the early American republic.Julie Roy Jeffrey received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD from Rice University. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and has held Fulbright awards for teaching in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She works on women and reform in the nineteenth century United States.

• Introduction ; 1. Complicating the Story: Religion and Gender in the Historical Representation of British and American Anti-Slavery ; 2. Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94 ; 3. 'We Ought to Obey God rather than Man:' Women, Anti-Slavery, and Nonconformist Religious Cultures ; 4. The Dissenting Voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: An Exploration of the Links Between Gender, Religious Dissent, and Anti-Slavery Radicalism ; 5. Immediatism, Dissent, and Gender: Women and the Sentimentalization of Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Appeals ; 6. Women Abolitionists and the Dissenting Tradition ; 7. 'On the Side of Righteousness:' Women, the Church, and Abolition ; 8. Writing Against Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe

The book provides a fascinating, and very detailed, insight into the role of women, particularly those from Puritan and dissenting traditions in the anti-slavery movement.

Elizabeth J. Clapp received her BA and PhD from the University of London. She has taught for a number of years at the University of Leicester where she is a Senior Lecturer in American History. She has published a book and several articles on women's activism in nineteenth-century America and has recently completed a study of Mrs. Anne Royall and the political culture of the early American republic.Julie Roy Jeffrey received her BA from Harvard College and her PhD from Rice University. She teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and has held Fulbright awards for teaching in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands. She works on women and reform in the nineteenth century United States.

• Introduction ; 1. Complicating the Story: Religion and Gender in the Historical Representation of British and American Anti-Slavery ; 2. Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94 ; 3. 'We Ought to Obey God rather than Man:' Women, Anti-Slavery, and Nonconformist Religious Cultures ; 4. The Dissenting Voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: An Exploration of the Links Between Gender, Religious Dissent, and Anti-Slavery Radicalism ; 5. Immediatism, Dissent, and Gender: Women and the Sentimentalization of Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Appeals ; 6. Women Abolitionists and the Dissenting Tradition ; 7. 'On the Side of Righteousness:' Women, the Church, and Abolition ; 8. Writing Against Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe

The book provides a fascinating, and very detailed, insight into the role of women, particularly those from Puritan and dissenting traditions in the anti-slavery movement.