Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (1998) Bathsheba Kingsley, “brawling woman” preacher who had “gone quite out of her place.” Brekus argued women like Kingsley within tens years of the first Great Awakening were increasingly prevented or blocked from participating in religious education (e.g., testifying, witnessing, etc.). By the Revolution sharp lines were drawn between the male and female realm of religious education. During the 1830s and 40s the moral authority gained by the ideology of “separate spheres” positioned religious education firmly in the female realm.
Bathsheba Kingsley, “brawling woman” preacher who had “gone quite out of her place.” Brekus argued women like Kingsley within tens years of the first Great.
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Catherine A. Brekus, Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (1998)
Bathsheba Kingsley, “brawling woman” preacher who had “gone quite out of her place.”
Brekus argued women like Kingsley within tens years of the first Great Awakening were increasingly prevented or blocked from participating in religious education (e.g., testifying, witnessing, etc.). By the Revolution sharp lines were drawn between the male and female realm of religious education.
During the 1830s and 40s the moral authority gained by the ideology of “separate spheres” positioned religious education firmly in the female realm. Women’s participation in religious education became the norm rather than the exception
Abolitionists: Slavery Violated Domestic Ideology & Religion
Older Anti-slavery Movement
Henry Clay, American Colonization Society
Liberia 1821-1822 Emigration Early moves to
abolish slavery among religious groups (e.g., Quakers
Northeast Ordinance of 1787
New Abolitionists
Immediate emancipation Public expression Recognition of black humanity and civil
equality
Variations among Abolitionists
Restrict spread of slavery Free soil party 1848 Anti-slavery not necessarily abolitionist
(e.g. some Northerners)
New England and Northeast: Center of Abolitionism –
However, they are NOT popular in North
Considered:
•Bad for business
•Racially suspect
•Too Radical
Southern Views
Various documents in reader attest to proslavery arguments
Postmaster’s position
Crucial Reform Movement: The Abolitionists
Key figure: William Lloyd Garrison (Began Publishing The Liberator in 1831 at Age 26)
Radical Demands for Immediate Abolition, Complete Equality
Free Blacks, Women Important
Defining Free Labor Ideology
Definition: Set of ideals that celebrated the North’s economic progress and the ability of ordinary men to become financially independent. These ideals include the belief that slavery invariably degraded free labor.
Free Labor Ideology cited by Abolitionists
“Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men”
New Fugitive Slave Act Created More Controversy
New Law Established Federal Commissioners
Northerners MUST Return Fugitive Slaves
Fugitive Slaves and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle
Tom’s Cabin
Lincoln Douglass Debates
Popular sovereignty Lincoln’s articulation of the difference
between freedom and equality
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