Event
Interracial Feminist Abolitionism: Female Anti-Slavery Societies in Boston, Salem, and Philadelphia
Brown Bag Session
Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut
Papers are circulated in advance. For copies, please contact the McNeil Center office.
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Kathryn Angelica is a PhD Candidate at the University of Connecticut, advised by Dr. Manisha Sinha. She received her MA from the University of Chicago, and her BA from Boston University. She also holds graduate certificates in Feminist Studies, College Instruction, and Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (IIREP). Her dissertation, “An Uneasy Alliance: Cooperation and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Black and White Women’s Activism” juxtaposes prominent white activists with Black feminist abolitionists to reveal how campaigns for abolition and women’s rights shaped the trajectory of political and social thought.