Women's mobilization in the Era of slave emancipation: Some Anglo-French comparisons

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 98-120

  Drescher, Seymour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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