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25 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsulm.4275
- isbn: 9782728827824
- eisbn: 9782728809677
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Hélène Quanquin, « Abolition and Women’s Rights Before and After the Civil War », Éditions Rue d’Ulm, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsulm.4275
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At first reading, the premise of this essay might seem counterintuitive, as it invites to think counter-historically, i.e. backwards instead of forwards. Its starting point is neither the American Revolution and the beginning of what is now referred to as the “first wave” of American abolitionism, nor the immediatist “turn” of the late 1820s-early 1830s. It is rather the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the period that goes from 1865 and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to th...