Remember the Distance That Divides Us: The Family Letters of Philadelphia Quaker abolitionist and Michigan pioneer Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, 1830-1842 - Rilegato

Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret

 
9780870137136: Remember the Distance That Divides Us: The Family Letters of Philadelphia Quaker abolitionist and Michigan pioneer Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, 1830-1842
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ISBN 10: 0870137131 ISBN 13: 9780870137136
Casa editrice: Michigan State Univ Pr, 2004

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Born in Delaware&;s Brandywine Valley in 1807, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler was a young woman who was fully engaged in her time. Leaving comfort and middle-class Philadelphia wealth behind, she headed west in 1830 with brother, Thomas, and an aunt to begin a new life in the wilderness of the Michigan Territory. During the next four years, until her untimely death in November 1834, Chandler became a tireless local activist; at the same time, she participated aggressively in national political discussions about pressing social issues, in particular in the dialogue about the nascent women&;s movement and in the debates about Abolitionism as they began to develop in the 1820s and early 1830s. She was ladies&; editor of Benjamin Lundy&;s Abolitionist Journal and a contemporary of William Lloyd Garrison. She wrote letters, articles, and poetry that appeared in the Abolitionist press, but at the same time she was a champion for public education at the local level. Within two years of her arrival in Michigan, she had established the territory&;s first anti-slave organization, the Logan Female Antislavery Society. 
      This rich collection of personal letters, most written to family members during Chandler&;s brief life in Michigan, provides a remarkable view of the Northwest frontier in the 1830s, as well as profound insights into the ideology and origins of Abolitionism. Her letters also reveal much about the beliefs, attitudes, and actions of a remarkable young woman who some have seen as a precursor to the Grimké sisters.

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This collection of letters, written by Elizabeth Margaret Chandler to her family during her brief stay in Michigan, provides a remarkable view of the Northwest frontier in the 1830s, as well as insights into the ideology and origins of abolitionism.

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Editore
Michigan State Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0870137131
ISBN 13 
9780870137136
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
458
Redattore
Mason Marcia J. Heringa
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