At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were ... competition and conflict with each other. The abolition of slave owning in 1807 and slave trading in 1834 throughout ...

The prominent role that Quakers played in calling and attending the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting on women ... century reforms. Between 1750 and 1830 Friends pioneered American reform movements on ...

If such a line as “Mason-Dixon” existed (actually, there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...

Born into slavery in a Dutch-speaking area of New England, Sojourner Truth fought to free herself and then others, becoming one of the best-known abolitionist activists in America. She even succeeded ...