ISBN: 9780807866085

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a c… More...

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony. White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia The University of North Carolina Press Early American History South; elite; slaveholding class; temperance movement; American Colonization Society; Whig Party; Democratic Party; slavery; Unionism; secession; Gender and American Culture 9780807823903, 9780807846964 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English History, The University of North Carolina Press<

ISBN: 9780807866085

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ISBN: 9780807866085

We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia We-Mean-to-Be-Counted~~Elizabeth-R-Varon U.S. History>Regional History>Regional History NOOK Book (eBook), The Unive… More...

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White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: The University of North Carolina Press], The University of North Carolina Press, 2000

ISBN: 9780807866085

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