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We mean to be counted : white women & politics in antebellum Virginia /
Demonstrates the widespread reform efforts and partisan political activities of elite white women in antebellum Virginia. An eye-opening contribution to the history of womenUs activism in the U.S.
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Gender & American culture
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1.
- The Representatives of Virtue: Female Benevolence and Moral Reform
- Ch. 2.
- This Most Important Charity: The American Colonization Society
- Ch. 3.
- The Ladies Are Whigs: Gender and the Second Party System
- Ch. 4.
- To Still the Angry Passions: Women as Sectional Mediators and Partisans
- Ch. 5.
- 'Tis Now Liberty or Death: The Secession Crisis
- Epilogue: The War and Beyond.