The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

• Main Author: Stevenson, Ana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
• Subjects: Social history.; United States-History.; Gender identity.; Sociolinguistics.; Ethnicity.; Social History.; US History.; Gender and Sexuality.; Language and Gender.; Ethnicity Studies.

This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women's rights movements, this book exam...