Klappentext: "In the current boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism, one subject has … slave trade, and thus to the spread of slavery to the Lower South, the expansion of cotton production, and the profits … accompanying both of these markets. She makes this argument through five case studies, each of which highlights a particular woman …

This chapter is part of a book devoted to the history of women's work in anti-slavery movements, the centrality of … slavery to the early women's rights movements, and the reliance by activists for gender equality on the analogy between women …'s oppression and slavery. My focus is on the relationship between sisterhood and slavery during the twentieth and twenty …