Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War

by Wendy Hamand Venet

This account of women's abolitionist activity during the Civil War offers new evidence of the extent of women's political activism and reveals the historical significance of this activism. It revises the traditional view of feminism as lying dormant during the war. The activism of such women as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, through the Woman's National Loyal League, brought women into a political sphere from which they had previously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081391342X
• ISBN13: 9780813913421
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"