Radical Friend
Nancy A. Hewitt
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The University of North Carolina Press
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Beschreibung
A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802–89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights Convention, and a key figure in progressive Quaker, antislavery, feminist, and spiritualist communities, Post sustained movements locally, regionally, and nationally over many decades. But more than simply telling the story of her role as a local leader or a bridge between local and national arenas of activism, Nancy A. Hewitt argues that Post's radical vision offers a critical perspective on current conceptualizations of social activism in the nineteenth century.
While some individual radicals in this period have received contemporary attention—most notably William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Lucretia Mott (all of whom were friends of Post)—the existence of an extensive network of radical activists bound together across eight decades by ties of family, friendship, and faith has been largely ignored. In this in-depth biography of Post, Hewitt demonstrates a vibrant radical tradition of social justice that sought to transform the nation.
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Lucy Stone, underground rail road, Quaker activists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Progressive Friends, Spiritualism, nineteenth-century woman’s rights, women suffrage, Harriet Jacobs, Lucretia Mott, American Anti-Slavery Society, Amy Post, National Liberal League, Cleveland Woman’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention, Ernestine Rose, Julia Wilbur, Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention, abolition of slavery, women’s rights, Isaac Post, Women’s Loyal National League, antislavery, Hicksite Separation, Society of Friends, William C. Nell, Western New York Anti-Slavery Socieety, Abby Kelley, Susan B. Anthony