Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation

Pt. I. Context - then and today

1. Declaring equality : sisterhood and slavery / David Brion Davis

2. Sisterhood, slavery, and sovereignty : transnational antislavery work and women's rights movements in the United States during the twentieth century / Judith Resnik

Pt. II. impact of antislavery on French, German, and British feminism

3. How (and why) the analogy of marriage with slavery provided the springboard for women's rights demands in France, 1640-1848 / Karen Offen

4. Frauenemancipation and beyond : the use of the concept of emancipation by early European feminists / Bonnie S. Anderson

5. Women's mobilization in the era of slave emancipation : some Anglo-French comparisons / Seymour Drescher

6. British abolition and feminism in transatlantic perspective / Clare Midgley

Pt. III. transatlantic activism of African-American women abolitionists

7. Sarah Forten's anti-slavery networks / Julie Winch

8. Incidents abroad : Harriet Jacobs and the transatlantic movement / Jean Fagan Yellin

9. "Like hot lead to pour on the Americans ..." : Sarah Parker remond - from Salem, Mass., to the British Isles / Willi Coleman

10. Literary transnationalism and diasporic history : Frances Watkins Harper's "fancy sketches," 1859-60 / Carla L. Peterson

Pt. IV. Transatlantic influences on the emergence of women's rights in the United States

11. "The throne of my heart" : religion, oratory, and transatlantic community in Angelina Grimke's launching of women's rights, 1828-1838 / Kathryn Kish Sklar

12. redemption of a heretic : Harriet Martineau and Anglo-American abolitionism / Deborah A. Logan

13. "Seeking a larger liberty" : remapping first wave feminism / Nancy A. Hewitt

14. Ernestine Rose's Jewish origins and the varieties of Euro-American emancipation in 1848 / Ellen Carol DuBois

Pt. V. Transcultural activism against slavery by African-American women

15. Writing for true womanhood : African-American women's writings and the antislavery struggle / Erica Armstrong Dunbar

16. Enacting emancipation : African American women abolitionists at Oberlin College and the quest for empowerment, equality, and respectability / Carol Lasser

17. At the boundaries of abolitionism, feminism, and black nationalism : the activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary / Jane Rhodes.