Event overview
Against Slavery! Harriet Martineau, the American South and the Abolitionists
Gaby Weiner, University of Umeå, Sweden, Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths University of London
This presentation focuses on the antislavery activism of someone you might have heard about – Harriet Martineau. Martineau is (relatively) well-known for her long and fruitful career as a nineteenth-century feminist, writer, journalist, political campaigner and novelist, but until recently, less has been known about her life-long commitment to anti-slavery. She pushed determinedly for the emancipation of slaves in America, and after the formal abolition of slavery in the British Empire and much of Europe, kept American Abolitionist campaigns, successes and setbacks on the front pages of the press in both Britain and America. Her books, journal articles, pamphlets, and newspaper columns sought to challenge pro-plantation arguments carried in the London press, especially the Times newspaper.
Gaby Weiner is Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths. She has held various professorial and honorary research positions in the UK and Sweden, and remains Professor of Teacher Education at Umea University. Publications include Just a Bunch of Girls (1985); Feminisms in Education (1994); Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Educational and Social Change (1999, with M. Arnot & M. David), Kids in Cyberspace: (2005, with C. Gaine), Reconstructing and Deconstructing Lives (2010, with L. Townsend), Tales of Loving and Leaving (2016) and Harriet Martineau and the Birth of the Disciplines (2017, with V. Sanders). She is currently working on a book for Routledge about Harriet Martineau as a foundational sociologist.
CISJ Research Seminar International Women's Day
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Mar 2023 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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