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

Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism

Av Sophie van den Elzen

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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Elzen shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their 'own' history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model.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.
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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.

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'Deeply researched and compellingly argued, Sophie van den Elzen's book marks the emergence of a new stage of historical studies of Euro-American women. Bringing new life and significance to the vast international range of historical writings by women activists that featured slavery and abolitionism, its pages illuminate the era as a whole and renew the foundation for future studies of women's activism generally.' Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement: A Short History with Documents, 1830-1870

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