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Article: Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2007
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Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America, by Beth A. Salerno. DeKalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. ix, 233 pp. $38.00 US (cloth).
In this short but powerful book, Beth A. Salemo documents the formation of two hundred and thirty female anti-slavery societies (FASS) in the United States between 1832-59, tracing the change in women's anti-slavery activities from moral suasion and petitioning to fairs, vigilance committees, and formal politics. Salemo focuses most of her attention on the decade of the 1830s, when American women engaged in a massive petition campaign and the organization' of FASS reached its ...