Remember the Distance That Divides Us: The Family Letters of Philadelphia Quaker Abolitionist and Michigan Pioneer Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, 1830-1842 - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0870137131 ISBN 13: 9780870137136

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2004

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"Remember the Distance that Divides Us is a remarkable addition to the body of pioneer women's literature. This abundant collection of historic letters gives a fascinating, intimate glimpse into the joys and heartaches of life on the Michigan frontier. Filled with rich detail, the correspondence portrays the rigors of homesteading and the striking contrasts to life in Philadelphia. The first-hand observations captured in these letters offer important new insights into the Abolitionist movement. Above all, the beauty of the author's own words preserves forever a poignant record of the emotional toll families paid to open this country."

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Born in Delaware’s Brandywine Valley in 1807, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler was a young woman who was fully engaged in her time. Leaving comfort and middle-class Philadelphia wealth behind, she headed west in 1830 with brother, Thomas, and an aunt to begin a new life in the wilderness of the Michigan Territory. During the next four years, until her untimely death in November 1834, Chandler became a tireless local activist; at the same time, she participated aggressively in national political discussions about pressing social issues, in particular in the dialogue about the nascent women’s movement and in the debates about Abolitionism as they began to develop in the 1820s and early 1830s. She was ladies’ editor of Benjamin Lundy’s Abolitionist Journal and a contemporary of William Lloyd Garrison. She wrote letters, articles, and poetry that appeared in the Abolitionist press, but at the same time she was a champion for public education at the local level. Within two years of her arrival in Michigan, she had established the territory’s first anti-slave organization, the Logan Female Antislavery Society.
This rich collection of personal letters, most written to family members during Chandler’s brief life in Michigan, provides a remarkable view of the Northwest frontier in the 1830s, as well as profound insights into the ideology and origins of Abolitionism. Her letters also reveal much about the beliefs, attitudes, and actions of a remarkable young woman who some have seen as a precursor to the Grimké sisters.

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• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0870137131
• ISBN 13: 9780870137136
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 458
• Herausgeber: Mason Marcia J. Heringa