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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2025

Sophie van den Elzen
Sophie van den Elzen
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Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Slavery in the International Women's Movement, 1832–1914
Memory Work and the Legacy of Abolitionism
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Index

Aberdeen, Lady, 164
abolition
Brazilian, 152
British, 104
commemorations of, 43, 91, 97, 104, 109, 118
commemorations of women’s role in, 98
Danish, 104
French, 88, 104
Swedish, 104
abolitionism, 17
immediatism, 91
legacy of, 2, 24, 220, 225
liberal, 63
as a model, 25
organised, 33
abolitionist imagination, the, 58, 121
Abolitioniste français, L’, 42
Académie française, 52–53
achievements, women’s, 150
affiliation, 6, 21, 23, 164, 176, 197, 204
Africa, 53, 130, 147, 151
African Americans, 29, 124, 140, 160, 162, 184
Afro-Caribbeans, 77
Afro-Peruvians, 84
agency, 16, 173, 175, 177
Algeria, 42, 106
Allgemeine Deutscher Frauenverein, 128
Almanach des femmes, 26, 89, 108, 115, 121, 138
Almanach phalanstérien, 118
almanacs, 117, 220
Deroin’s, 117
republican, 118
Am I Not a Man and a Brother, medallion, 36, 53
America, as a model, 178, 189, 193
American Anti-Slavery Society, 38–39, 186
American Equal Rights Association, 184, 209
American Woman and her Political Equals, 211
American Woman Suffrage Alliance, 184
Amis des Noirs, Société des, 41
amnesia. See forgetting
Ampt, Anna, 54
anarchism, 12
Anglicans, 35
Anglo-American Commons, 35
Anglo-Saxon, 194–195
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska, 47, 125
Anthony, Susan B., 28, 149, 157, 167, 180, 182–186, 188, 190–191, 193, 202, 204, 206, 213, 215, 221
Anti-Corn Law, British, 201
anti-imperialism, 60, 98
Antiquity, 146
antislavery
American, 37–41
bazaars, 52, 95, 97
Belgian, 46
bourgeois, 161
British, 30, 35–37, 95
discourse of, 33, 173
Dutch, 43–46
French, 41–43
French Republican iconography of, 106
German, 46–48
heroines, 60, 78, 80, 83
history of, 50, 143, 145–146, 152, 159, 163, 172, 176, 219, 221, 223
liberal, 42, 160
motifs of, 50–56, 65, 76, 85, 206, 225
movement of, 2, 4, 6–7, 33, 40, 50, 58, 62, 110, 118, 125, 130, 138, 155, 158, 205
narratives, 4
organised, 3, 12, 33–34, 37–38, 42–43, 104, 120, 183, 205
petitions, 41
poetry, 52
press, 158
propaganda model of, 100
prose, 51
radical, 26
rhetoric, 70
sentimental, 79–80, 220
theatre, 51
women’s, 36, 85, 96–97, 146, 149, 219
antislavery fiction, women’s, 60
antislavery origin myth, 19, 28, 178–180, 191, 193, 202, 204, 206–208, 211–213, 215–216
European accounts of, 202–226
Anti-Slavery Reporter, 35
Anti-Slavery Society, 35
anti-suffragists, 206
Aphra Behn (1849), 64, 69, 74–79
apprenticeship system, 37
appropriation, 21
Arago, François, 118
Arnaud, Angélique, 117
Ashurst Biggs, Caroline, 100
Assing, Ottilie, 47
Association fraternelle et solidaire de toutes les associations, 114
Auclert, Hubertine, 14, 116, 128, 135, 137–138, 152, 165
Audouard, Olympe, 192
Bachofen, Johann Jakob, 192
Barmby, Catherine, 96, 99, 103
Barrau, Caroline de, 117
Bartlett, Robert, 92, 98, 101
Baudrillart, Henri, 142
Bäumer, Gertrud, 128, 195–196, 200, 203, 205
Beaumont, Gustave de, 33
Bebel, August, 132, 140, 159, 221
Behn, Aphra, 50, 54, 59, 64, 74
Bentham, Jeremy, 103
Bergendahl, Anna Amalia, 44
Berlin West Africa Conference (1884), 46
Bescherelle, Louis-Nicolas, 98
betrayal, narrative of, 185–186, 208–209, 216
Birney, James G., 185
Bissette, Cyrille, 42
Blackburn, Helen, 122
Blackwell, Anna, 90, 117, 174
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 150, 176
Blackwell, Henry, 158, 184
Blanc, Louis, 68
bloomerism, 154
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 91, 93
Boers, 45
Bogelot, Isabelle, 189
Bourbon (Isle). See Réunion
Boston Female (Antislavery) Society, 92
Boston Peace Conference, 39
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 37, 40, 42, 44, 47–48, 186
Brougham, Henry, 110
Brougham, Lord, 94
Brown, John, 38, 58, 138
Butler, Josephine, 67, 91, 128, 147–148, 169–170, 224
Byron, Lady, 187
Carey, Elizabeth Sheridan, 108
Carlègle, Charles Émile, 171
Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm, 47–48, 67
catechisms, 213, 215
feminist, 179
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 18, 197, 200–201
Cauer, Minna, 128, 165, 203–204
Cazelles, Émile, 141
Celtic, 164
centennials, 18, 21
chains, motif of, 62, 84, 135, 217
Chapman, Maria, 35, 52, 59, 87, 89, 92, 96–97, 100, 114
Charles II, 75
Chartism, 89, 96
Chartists, 34, 115
Chelmsford, 90
Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, 189, 211, 225
Child, Lydia Maria, 11, 219
Chorrillos, 81
Christianity, 15, 57, 99, 101, 204
radical, 222
citizenship
birthright, 38
citoyennes, 15
custodial, 147, 154
global, 226
language of, 15
women’s, 205
civil rights, 208
Civil War, 11, 27, 31–32, 38, 60, 124, 129–130, 143, 173, 175, 185, 205, 207–208, 213, 225
civilising mission, concept of, 164
Claeys, Emilie, 128
Clara Mundt. See Mühlbach, Luise
Clarkson, Thomas, 35, 54, 98
class struggle commonplace, 157–164, 177
class war, 157–160
Clemenc, Annie, 157
Club des femmes, 107
clubs, 103, 107
Cobbe, Frances Power, 193–194, 224
Cobden, Richard, 97, 100, 110
collective identity, 9, 189
Colman, George, 51
colonial cult, German, 46
colonial lobbies, 35, 41, 66
colonial violence, 73, 77
colonialism, 20
Central European involvement in, 46
French, 106
implication in, 46
colonies, women in the, 71, 165
Comité des droits de la femme, 94
common language, 127, 189, 218
complementarity, women’s, 148
Condorcet, Nicolas de, 41
Congo, 46
Congress of Vienna, 35, 46
Considerant, Victor, 107
Constitution, American, 34, 38, 184
consumer activism, 35, 48
Cooper, Anna Julia, 225
Coquerel, Athanase, 109
correspondence networks, 33, 40
Cowper, William, 36
Curaçao, 164
Dalit emancipation, 31
Darwinism, social, 164
Davis, Angela, 184
Davis, Paulina Wright, 122, 204
Day, Thomas, 53
De Gids, 146, 191
De Vrouw, 125, 132, 136–137, 156–157, 159
Démar, Claire, 98
Deraismes, Maria, 14, 128
Deroin, Jeanne, 16–17, 26, 66, 71, 88–89, 91, 93–95, 103, 107, 111, 122, 162, 168, 220
Desroches, Cécile, 94
diagram of the slave ship ‘Brookes’, 36, 50
Die Frau, 128, 146, 149–150, 165, 195
Die Frau und der Sozialismus (1879), 140, 159, 221
Die Frauenbewegung, 125, 128
Die Gleichheit, 125, 128, 157–159, 177
Die Moderne Frauenbewegung (1905), 197–198
divorce, 15, 79, 86
Dobson Collet, Sophia, 34
Dohm, Hedwig, 145
Doin, Sophie, 54
Douglass, Frederick, 1, 35, 47–48, 53, 56, 104, 125, 184, 187
Drucker, Wilhelmina, 14, 128
Duras, Claire de, 59
Dutch Civil Code (1838), 132
Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labour, 189
East Indies, Ducth, 45
education, 15, 127
election of 1849, French, 94
electoral campaign, Deroin’s, 94, 113
Emancipation Proclamation, the, 38
emancipation, etymology of, 142
emigration, German, 46
emotion, 22–23, 105, 126, 152, 155, 161, 163, 175, 182, 208, 211–212
employment, 127
enfranchisement. See suffrage
Engels, Friedrich, 159
Englishwoman’s Journal, 127
Englishwoman’s Review, 127
Enlightenment, the, 14, 31, 33, 46, 51, 73, 133, 197
Equiano, Olaudah, 54
erasure. See forgetting
Esquiros, Alphonse, 111
ethnological order, 193–194, 196
Evolutie, 125, 128, 130–134, 137–138, 144, 155, 158, 160–161, 165, 172, 191
exclusion, 21, 212, 216
exoticism, 34, 51, 65, 73
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, 193, 217
February Revolution. See French Revolution
feminine virtues, 158
femininity, 71, 76, 147–150
feminism, 8
American, 204
bourgeois, 15
development of, 201
Euro-American, 222
feminismo americano, 19
feminist-abolitionists, 10, 11, 149, 157, 176
hegemonic, 8
imperial, 8, 146, 165, 223–225
liberal, 14, 127
literary, 64
socialist, 17, 79, 127, 157
feminist internationalists, 179–180, 182, 206
feminist-abolitionists, 219
Fifteenth Amendment, 184, 187, 208, 210
First International Women’s Rights Congress, 17
Fords, Isabella, 122
forgetting, 126
collective, 164, 173
structural, 173–182, 212, 225
Forten, Margaretta, 96
Forty-Eighters, 106, 116, 125
Fourier, Charles, 14, 42, 66, 68
Fourierism, 65–66, 89, 91, 219
Fourteenth Amendment, 38, 184
franchise. See suffrage
Franck, Victor, 87
Frank, Louis, 133, 140, 155, 191
Frankfurt parliament, 74
Frauenberuf, 132
Frauen-Rundschau, 213
Frauenwohl, 132
Frauen-Zeitung, 89, 125, 130
free labour, 82
free market ideology, 66
freethinkers, 34
French Constitution (1848), 112
French Revolution
of 1789, 15, 204
of 1848, 26, 42, 68, 90, 93, 103, 202, 220
friendship, 18, 188
Fry, Elizabeth, 44, 147, 187
Fugitive Slave Act, 40
Fuller, Margaret, 90
fundraising, women’s, 36
Gage, Matilda J., 182
Garrison, William Lloyd, 26, 34, 58, 91, 96, 100, 102, 119, 138, 180, 190, 205
Garrisonianism, 38–39, 88, 90
Garrisonian, 10, 26, 31, 38, 186, 205, 220
rhetoric, 122, 185
Gay, Désirée Véret, 66, 95, 107, 111
Gazette des femmes, 71
genius
black, 166
women’s, 156, 166, 192
Germantown petition, 33
Geschichte der Frauen in den Kulturländern (1901), 195, 197
Gilbert, Anne Taylor, 100
Girardin, Delphine de, 108
Giraud, Léon, 189–191, 203
Gizycki, Lily von, 128
Gladstone, William, 210
Glasgow Emancipation Society, 92
Globe, Le, 93
Gouges, Olympe de, 3, 14, 41, 65
gradualism, 103
grand narrative, 192
of emancipation, 19
of progress, 146, 161–162, 192, 194, 198, 210, 215
of Seneca Falls, 185
Grégoire, Henri, 41, 50, 53–54
Grimké, Angelina, 39, 202
Grimké, Sarah, 39, 89, 122
Gulamgiri (1873), 30
gynecocracies. See matriarchy
Hagen, Ellen, 3
Haitian Revolution, the, 41, 51, 54, 57, 66, 82
Handbuch der Frauenbewegung (1901), 196, 205
Hannibal, 203
Haver, Dora, 128
Haydon, Benjamin, 87, 97
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 12
Henson, Josiah, 56
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 51
Heyrick, Elizabeth, 36, 95
Hicksites, 92
Hilda van Suylenburg (1897), 64, 204
Hippel, Theodor Gottlieb von, 14
Hirsch, Jenny, 141
historians, women, 183
historical novels, 68
histories/history, 202
comparative, 180
European accounts of feminist, 202–226
feminist, 213
women’s, 22, 192, 202, 206
History of Mary Prince, the, 36
History of Woman Suffrage, The (1881), 28, 180, 182–188, 190–191, 193, 195, 202, 204, 215, 221, 223
history writing, 178, 182
Holyoake, George Jacob, 100
Howitt, Mary, 187
Huber, Therese, 47, 53
Hugo, Victor, 126, 142
Humboldt, Alexander von, 47
iconography, 2, 36, 48, 60, 84, 135, 169
ICW, 1, 17, 164, 188–190, 199, 206, 217–219
identity
collective, 22
feminist internationalist, 18
imagined communities, 129, 176, 202
Immediate not Gradual Abolition (Heyrick), 36
Imoinda, 75
Imperial China, 31
imperialism, 15, 30, 37, 40, 136, 222–223
imperial imaginary, 164, 167
women’s, 164
Independence, American war of, 213
Indiana (1832), 64, 67, 69–74, 86, 93
indignation, 81–82, 85, 175, 179, 185–188, 208–211, 224
information politics, 32, 50, 88, 176
Inkle and Yarico, 51
international women’s movement, 2, 4, 8, 16, 29, 37, 61–62, 65, 126, 150, 179, 193, 197, 216, 218, 225
internationalism, 217, 223
feminist, 2, 8, 16–19, 66, 177, 182, 189, 193, 212, 218
suffrage, 5, 205, 208
women’s, 8, 89, 226
Isabelle, Princess Imperial of Brazil, 152
insurrection, slave. See resistance against slavery
IWSA, 17–18, 62–63, 85, 135, 188–189, 195, 197, 199–200, 206, 217, 219
Jacobs, Aletta, 188
Jacobs, Harriet, 56
Jamaica, 3, 66
Jameson, Anna, 187
Jin Tianhe, 31, 57
John Bull, 186
Jones, Mary, 157
Journal des Femmes, 153, 175
journalism, investigative, 84, 169
July Monarchy, 43
June Days, the, 107, 117
Jus Suffragii, 63, 217
Kearny, Belle, 167
Knight, Anne, 17, 26, 36, 87–89, 91–93, 95–96, 101, 108–109, 113–115, 117, 162, 185, 220
knowledge production, feminist, 192, 202, 213, 215
Koidula, Lydia, 3
Kol, Nellie van, 14, 128
Kotzebue, August von, 51, 54
Kramer, Martina, 146, 191
Kulturländern, 180, 196–197
La Citoyenne, 125, 128, 132, 134, 138, 155, 159, 161–162, 172, 174
La Démocratie pacifique, 65, 107, 111, 117
La Femme, 125, 128, 146–147
La femme libre, 66
La Fronde, 128, 166, 172, 191
La Politique des femmes, 107
La Praia, 81
La Tribune des Femmes, 98
La Voix des femmes, 103, 107, 111
Société de, 94, 107
Laboulaye, Édouard René de, 126, 130
Lachambeaudie, Pierre, 117
Ladies Anti-Slavery Committee (Rotterdam), 44
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 68, 110
Lamennais, Félicité, 99–100
Lange, Helene, 18, 87, 128, 135, 149–150, 154, 174, 176, 180, 195–197, 200, 203, 205
Larcher, Louis-Julien, 98
Le droit des femmes, 125, 128, 132, 167
Le féminisme aux États-Unis [etc.] (1898), 195, 198
Le Journal des femmes, 125, 174
Legouvé, Ernest, 98
Leopold II, 46
Lesueur, Daniel (Jeanne Lapauze), 166
Lewald, Fanny, 163
liberalisation of the press, 104
Liberator, The, 38–39, 52, 102
Liberty Bell, 52, 89
Lily, The, 89
Lincoln, Abraham, 31, 38
Linton, James W., 99–100, 102
L’Opinion des femmes, 89, 108, 114, 116–117
Lovejoy, Elijah Parish, 38
Macé, Jean, 117, 121
Macmillan, Chrystal, 217
manumission, 44, 82
Marchef-Girard, Marie-Josepine de, 154
marital abuse, 133
maroons, 73
marriage, 66, 70, 79, 85, 90, 94, 133, 135, 141, 161, 220
Martineau, Harriet, 11, 33, 58–59, 87, 91, 219
martyrdom, 38, 58
Marx, Karl, 12
Massachusetts, 37, 89, 158, 204
master narrative. See grand narrative
matriarchy, 159, 192
May, Samuel J., 102
McLaren, Priscilla Bright, 87
melodramatic contrast between black and white, 209
memory, 189
agents of, 6, 22–23
collective, 53, 133
cultural, 7, 20, 22–23, 28
memories of antislavery, 3, 6, 28, 30–32, 50, 56–65, 69, 72, 83, 85, 118, 131, 137, 144, 149, 159, 167, 173, 175, 177, 218, 221, 224–225
French Republican, 162
memory–activism nexus, the, 22
multidirectional, 20–21
politics, 179, 208
public, 24
selective, 175–176
self-memorialisation, 19
studies, 22
transnational, 19–20
work, 2, 13, 21–24, 86, 89, 100, 117, 163, 173, 175, 189, 218–219, 223–224, 226
mère suprême, 67, 113
metempsychosis, 59
Michelet, Jules, 192
migration, anxieties over, 172, 224
Mill, Harriet Taylor, 34, 90, 120, 140
Mill, John Stuart, 8, 14, 27, 34, 120, 126, 132, 137, 140–141, 143–144, 176, 221–222
Mirabeau, Comte de, 41
miscegenation, 164
missionary work, 46
moral suasion, 38, 58, 60, 100, 103, 147–148, 152
Morris, William, 94
motherhood, 149, 155
civic, 15
Mott, Lucretia, 91–93, 96, 149, 180–181, 183, 185–187, 203–204
Mühlbach, Luise, 5, 25, 64, 67–68, 74, 76, 219
Mundt, Theodor, 68
Mutterrecht und Urreligion (1851), 192
myth, self-mythologisation, 5, 224
Naber, Johanna, 205
Napoleon Bonaparte, 41
National American Suffrage Association, 214
National Anti-Slavery Convention, 26, 119
National Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women (1837), 186
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 219
The National Era, 129
National Exhibition of Women’s Labour, Dutch, 2, 45, 224
national sin (Garrisonian doctrine), 31, 34, 38
National Woman Suffrage Alliance, 184, 193
nationalism, 17, 46, 198
Nederlandsche Bond voor Vrouwenkiesrecht, 172
The Negro’s Complaint (Cowper), 36
Netherlands, The, 143
Neue Bahnen, 124–125, 127–128, 132, 148, 178
Niboyet, Eugénie, 68, 91, 107, 111
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 145–146
Nieuwenhuijs, R. C., 141
non-resistance, 34, 118–119
non-violence, 117
Noun, 69–70
O’Connell, Daniel, 205
Ons Streven, 125, 128, 143–144, 152, 168
Onze Roeping, 128, 154
Opie, Amelia, 187
Orgaan van den Nederlandsche Vrouwenbond tot Verhooging van het Zedelijk Bewustzijn, 125, 128, 146–148, 151
Orientalism, 12, 189, 195–196, 198–199, 201, 223
Oroonoko (1688), 50–51, 54, 64, 74, 76, 86
Ostrogorski, Moïse, 191
othering, 198, 200
Otto, Louise, 89, 124, 128
Owenism, 65
pacifism, 34
Pall Mall Gazette, 169
Paris, 17, 26, 90, 93
Paris antislavery congress (1890), 162
Paris Exposition of 1889, 189
Paris International Women’s Rights Conference (1878), 190
Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, 189
Parkes, Bessie Rayner, 93
passivity, motif of slave, 61, 77, 139, 173
patriarchy, 159
Paul et Virginie (1788), 64, 72–73, 86, 219
Pease Nichol, Elizabeth, 91, 108
Pelletan, Eugène, 117
Pennington, James, 47
Pérégrinations d’une paria (1838), 64, 68, 79–91
Peru, 79–80
Peruvian aristocracy, 80
petitioning, women’s, 36, 42, 44
philanthropic genealogy of feminism, 147, 191, 204, 216, 221
Phillips, Wendell, 96, 187, 209
Phule, Jyotirao, 30–31, 57
Phule, Savitribai, 31
Pierson, Hendrik, 148
plantation life, representation of, 71, 173, 175, 177, 187
Ploeger, 172
Pogány, Willy, 62–63, 135, 217
Powers, Hiram, 171
Prince, Mary, 36, 56
Profession de foi, Jeanne Deroin’s, 71, 93
progress, 153–154, 165, 168, 182, 190, 192, 205
gradual, 200
liberal, 146, 199, 202, 215
moral, 161
narrative of moral, 152
of women, 183
women’s, 193–194
progressivism
liberal, 198
nineteenth-century, 8, 172, 180
prostitution, 131, 162, 164, 169, 171–172, 174, 224
abolition of, 5
anti-, 17
Protestant dissent, 33–34, 48
Protestant revival, 43–44
protestantism, German, 198
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 114
public performances, women’s, 202
Purvis, Robert, 187
Quakers, 33–35, 87, 89, 91
White, 96
quarante-huitardes, 107
racial antagonism, 28, 131, 172, 211, 221
racial antagonism commonplace, 164–168
racial Weltanschauung, 164
racism, 33, 61, 82–83, 164, 166–168, 170, 177, 187–188, 193–194, 210, 216
Reasoner, 96
rebellion, slave. See resistance against slavery
Reconstruction, 130, 167
reform
culture, 25, 33, 60, 121, 192, 223–224, 226
discourse, 170, 222
education, 5
international communities of, 117
marriage, 5
moral, 14, 157
movements, 5
radical discourses, 16
Reform Bill (1883), 210
Reid, Marion Kirkland, 91, 99
Republicanism, French, 26, 88–89, 118, 224
commemorations of, 162
République du peuple, 118
resistance against slavery, 33, 41, 54, 77–78, 83, 153, 175
Réunion, 69–74
revolution, need for, 160–161
revolutionary emancipationism, 41
revolutions of 1848, 14, 47, 68, 74, 79
Revue des colonies, 42
Revue des deux mondes, 142, 163
Rhyn, Henne am, 161
Richer, Léon, 128
ridicule, 15, 105, 138, 140, 171, 220
Robinson, Harriet, 190, 203–204, 208
Roland, Pauline, 95, 107, 114–115, 122
romantic socialism, 15, 63, 65, 86, 93, 219, 224, 226
romantic socialists, 192
Romanticism, 34
Rose, Ernestine, 202
Rossi competition, 191
Rotterdam, 43–44
Saint-Domingue uprising. See Haitian Revolution
Sainte-Croix, Avril de, 146, 149, 191
Saint-Lazare prison, 94, 114–115
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 64, 72
Saint-Simon, Henri de, 14, 66
Saint-Simonianism, 16, 58, 65–66, 68–69, 80, 90, 94, 117, 154, 219–220
Sand, George, 17, 25, 64, 67–69, 148, 156, 166, 219
Satyashodhak Samaj, 31
scenes of subjection, 55, 174, 177
Schirmacher, Käthe, 164, 180, 191, 193, 195–203, 205–209, 211, 224
Schoelcher, Victor, 43, 69, 105, 125, 162
Schwimmer, Rosika, 188
Second Maroon War, 3
Second Republic, 104, 106, 113
Sécretan, Charles, 140
selective recall, 126
self-historicisation, feminist, 189, 205, 223
Seneca Falls, 107, 180–181, 183, 185–186, 189, 203, 214
commemoration of, 189
sensationalism, 169
sensibility, 76, 83, 90, 152–153, 161–162, 177
women’s, 146–147, 150, 206
sentimentalism, 44, 55, 59, 61, 65, 83–84, 155, 168
logic of, 74
serfdom, abolition of, 15, 159
Sewall, May Wright, 189
sexual morality, 172
sexualisation of feminist demands, 171, 222
Shafts, 127
Shakers, 117
shame, mobilisation of, 38
Sharp, Granville, 35
Shaw, Annie H., 190
Sheffield Female Political Association, 92, 94, 109, 115
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 102
The Shield, 128
sisterhood, 9, 86, 90, 190, 197, 216–218
abolitionist, 11, 65, 85
exclusionary, 216
international, 204
language of, 85, 218, 222–223
rhetoric of, 225
suffrage, 189, 215
slave market, 151
slave narratives, 56
slave trade, 35, 175
abolition of the, 35
Slavernij der vrouw (translation), 143
slavery
abolition of, 15
American, 173
French abolition of, 26
in the Islamic world, 46, 170
lexicon of, 12
remembrance of, 225
socialism, 12, 14
slavery lexicon in, 12, 136
Société antiesclavagiste de Belgique, 46
Société de la morale chrétienne, 42, 52
Société française pour l’abolition de l’esclavage, 42
Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 35, 41
Society for the Advancement of the Abolition of Slavery (Dutch), 44
Society in America (1837), 219
solidarity, 8, 20–21, 29, 42, 60, 81, 85, 115, 173, 177, 194, 222, 225
Some Account of the Truth as it Is in Jesus, 96
Song of the Shirt, 97
Southerne, Thomas, 51, 74
stadial development discourse, 189, 197
Stafford House Memorial, 119
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1, 3, 13, 17, 28, 130, 149–150, 157, 167, 176, 180–186, 188–189, 191, 193, 203, 206, 213, 215, 218–219, 221
Stanton, Theodore, 189–190, 193–195
Stead, W. T., 169
Stedman, John Gabriel, 51
Stephen, George, 96
stereotypes, 6, 57, 165
Stone, Lucy, 3, 157–158, 177, 184
Stourm, Eugène, 121
Stowe, Charles, 176
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 17, 27, 32, 40, 49, 60, 67, 90, 129–130, 147–149, 151–155, 157, 163, 173–174, 176, 205, 220
Strinz, Martha, 205
Sturge, Charlotte, 100
The Subjection of Women (1869), 27, 120, 140–141, 144–145, 221
suffrage, 5, 15, 90
American campaign, 189, 202
black, 1, 203
as emancipation, 182, 204, 207–208, 215, 221
movement for women’s, 183
suffragism, 201
suffragists, 1
women’s, 8, 95, 98, 116, 127, 203, 207, 218
sugar boycotts, 30, 36, 82, 85
Suriname, 75–76, 165
Sutherland, Duchess of, 119
symbolism, 189
Republican, 106
Tacitus, 99
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 103
Tappan, Arthur, 186
Tappan, Lewis, 186
temperance, 17
Thirteenth Amendment, 38
Thorillon, Antoine-Joseph, 98
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 33, 57, 112
Topsy, 50, 134–135, 138
Townsend, Lucy, 97
Train, George Francis, 167, 187
travel writing, 53, 79, 165, 219
Tribune des femmes, 66–67, 71, 94, 219–220
Tristan, Flora, 25, 64, 67–68, 79, 98, 219
Truth, Sojourner, 3, 22
Turner, Nat, 38
Una, The, 122
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 25, 27, 40, 44, 48–49, 119, 129, 134–135, 141, 143, 146, 148, 151–152, 155–156, 169, 173, 175, 177, 220, 225
adaptations of, 129
Union for Female Suffrage (Dutch), 172
Unitarianism, 34
universal emancipation, 39, 88, 96, 121, 168
uprising, slave. See resistance against slavery
usable past, 7, 14, 22, 28, 126, 131, 150, 167, 175–177, 204, 216, 218, 223
vegetarianism, 117
Verein Frauenbildung-Frauenstudium, 179, 213
Victorians, 30, 223
violence, representation of, 51, 55, 129, 133–134, 136, 160–161, 174–175, 225
virtues, feminine, 71, 149–150, 154
Voilquin, Suzanne, 66, 68, 95
Vormärz, women’s writing of the, 75
Vrouwenarbeid, 168
Washington, Booker T., 166
Wedgewood, Josiah, 36
Wedgewood medallion. See Am I Not a Man and a Brother, medallion
Weiss, Louise, 62
Westminster Review, 120
Weston, Lucia, 97
Wheeler, Anna, 17, 68
Whig history, 192
white slave trade, 169, 171–172, 177, 225
commonplace, 169–172
white slavery (prostitution), 16, 169, 171
panic, 169
representation of, 169
whiteness, 170
Wilberforce, William, 35–36, 54
Wild, Hortense, 111, 114, 117
Willard, Emma, 108
Willem III, 44
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 134
Woman Question, 4–5, 14, 27, 123, 125, 127, 145, 175–177, 220, 225
Woman Question in Europe, The (1884), 180, 193, 195–196
Woman’s Elevation League, 92
woman–abolitionist commonplace, 146–157, 176–177
woman–slave analogy, 6, 13, 19, 60, 65–66, 70, 135–136, 144–145, 147, 172, 206, 219, 221
sexualisation of, 171
woman–slave commonplace, 132–146, 176
women
black, 14, 173, 177
middle-class, 176
race, 19
white, 6, 173, 177, 194, 199, 209, 223
working-class, 14, 158, 204
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 17, 188
women’s rights campaign, 156, 182, 223
women’s rights discourse, 172, 177
women’s rights movement, 4, 6, 8
women’s rights periodicals, 24, 125–126, 140, 175, 177, 222
women’s rights rhetoric, 6, 12–13, 126
Women’s Suffrage in Many Lands (1909), 197, 200
women’s sympathy, motif of, 73, 85
women’s petitioning, 91, 95
women’s political representation, 135
Worcester Convention, 89, 95, 115
World War I, 5, 15, 217
World’s Anti-Slavery Convention, 11, 28, 37, 87, 91, 96, 113, 180, 183–185, 187–190, 203, 208, 215, 221
World’s Christian Temperance Union, 199
Young Germans, 67
Zeitschrift für Frauenstimmrecht, 62
Zetkin, Clara, 14–15, 128, 157, 221
Ziméo (1769), 51
Zimmern, Alice, 197, 200–203, 209–210
Zwaardemaker, Cornelia, 144

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