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Illinois Women and the Liberty Party Illinois Women and the Liberty Party
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Constructing the Liberty Lady Constructing the Liberty Lady
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“Ladies, Will You Meet with Us?” “Ladies, Will You Meet with Us?”
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Female “Influence” and Liberty Men Female “Influence” and Liberty Men
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Black Laws Black Laws
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Conclusion Conclusion
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2 Abolitionist Women and the Liberty Party
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Published:October 2010
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the incident that taught Mary Davis that the color of one's skin was unrelated to one's character, and that racial prejudice and slavery were a detriment to the nation. Davis's response to the insolent white male representatives of “galvanized aristocracy” she encountered at Chicago's City Hall well represented her outspoken support for the antislavery movement—she ignored opposition from those around her and forged an independent position that reflected her passion for the cause, but that occasionally left her vulnerable to disparagement from the general public. A resident of Peoria, Illinois, throughout the 1840s, Davis became a zealous advocate of the Liberty Party and a skilled political recruiter among women. Like the Ohio women who organized female antislavery societies in the 1830s, Davis and her Liberty Party sisters carefully negotiated a cooperative and flexible position within the movement.
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