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1 online resource (vii, 205 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
From the early days of the antislavery movement, when political action by women was frowned upon, British and American women were tireless and uncompromising campaigners. Without their efforts, emancipation would have taken much longer. And the commitment of today's women, who fight against human trafficking and child slavery, descends directly from that of the early female activists. Speak a Word for Freedom: Women against Slavery tells the story of fourteen of these women. Meet Alice Seeley Harris, the British missionary whose graphic photographs of mutilated Congolese rubber slaves in 1904 galvanized a nation; Hadijatou Mani, the woman from Niger who successfully sued her own government in 2008 for failing to protect her from slavery, as well as Elizabeth Freeman, Elizabeth Heyrick, Ellen Craft, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Anne Kemble, Kathleen Simon, Fredericka Martin, Timea Nagy, Micheline Slattery, Sheila Roseau and Nina Smith. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.3 9 176925 |
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Accelerated Reader MG 8.3 9 176925 |
| Summary |
Profiles women abolitionists who despite personal risks devoted their lives to freedom for all, including Harriet Tubman, Alice Seeley Harris, and Hadijatou Mani. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Women abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Slavery -- Juvenile literature.
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Abolitionists.
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Women -- Biography.
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Slavery.
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Slavery. |
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Women abolitionists. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Juvenile works.
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| Added Author |
Gann, Marjorie, author.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Willen, Janet. Speak a word for freedom [Toronto, Ontario] : Tundra Books, [2015] 9781770496514 (NjBwBT)bl2015040005 (OCoLC)878183274 |
| ISBN |
9781770496538 : $65.00 |
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177049653X : $65.00 |
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