Slavery in the International Women's Movement, 1832-1914

Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-41196-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 331 Seiten

Reihe: Slaveries since Emancipation

In this book, Sophie van den Elzen shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their 'own' history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of sources produced over the span of almost a century, including novels, journals, speeches, pamphlets, and posters, van den Elzen reveals how the women's movement gradually diverged from a position of solidarity with the enslaved into one of opposition, based on hierarchical assumptions about class and race. This inclusive cultural survey provides a new understanding of the ways in which the cultural memory of Anglo-American antislavery was imported and adapted across Europe and the Atlantic world, and it breaks new ground in studying the “woman-slave analogy” from a longitudinal and transnational comparative perspective. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elzen, Sophie van den

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From Transnational Movement to Global Memory: Abolitionism and the Culture of Reform; 2. Fictions, 1832–1852: Sentimental Antislavery and the Sisterhood; 3. Archives, c. 1848: Parisian Calls for 'Universal Emancipation'; 4. Periodicals, 1866–1914: Slavery and the Woman Question; 5. Histories, 1881–1914: Feminist Internationalists and the Antislavery Origin Myth; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Elzen, Sophie van den
Sophie van den Elzen is Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University. She is a specialist on the interrelationships of social movements, culture, and memory.