The Weston sisters
Subtitle: an American abolitionist family
By: Lee V. Chambers
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781469618173
Subjects: Sisters; Women abolitionists; Case studies; Antislavery movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a household band; title: Married to the cause: the Weston sisters and antislavery; title: Married to each other: marriage, singlehood, and sororal practice; title: I must make money: the sororal economy; title: The cross of my life: social reproduction in the sororal household; title: As if I had never been absent: the household extends its reach; title: Yours with the united faculties of Mary and Martha: politics and kin-keeping; title: Rocking the nation like a cradle: the political import of households; title: Impudent puppies: sisters in the household of faith; title: Acknowledgments; title: Appendix: to be left at Capt. Weston's near wales tavern: on correspondence; title: Weston genealogy; title: Antislavery chronology.