Judith Jennings
Biographic Data
| ID | 5367265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Jennings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Jennings |
| SIGNATURE | JENNINGS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kentucky Foundation for Women, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amanda E. Herbert. Female Alliances
In this groundbreaking work, Amanda E. Herbert presents an innovative analysis of the range and importance of women's friendship networks in late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Britain. She offers a fresh methodological approach, drawing on a wide variety of sources, including letters, diaries, account books, recipes, individually and collectively produced material objects, and gendered social practices to create “a series of interlock…
The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
This study presents new information about the four Quaker businessmen who helped found the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained active in the late anti-slave trade movement throughout their lifetimes. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, the study traces the close personal, business, social and religious ties binding the men together and shaping their abolition activities and arguments. By closely examining the lives of Joseph…
New Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century British Quaker Women
In the last three decades, research on eighteenth-century British Quaker women reflects a range of different methodological perspectives. Recent studies focus on female spiritual development and sense of identity in the formative seventeenth century. New influences and changing contexts in the eighteenth century, especially Quietism, engendered new themes: a continuing concern with self and collective identity; theology and practices; and partici…
Mary Morris Knowles
This essay examines three themes relating to the beliefs and actions of Mary Morris Knowles (1733–1807) as a devout Quaker woman, incorporates new research and places her in multiple contexts within eighteenth-century Quakerism. Considering Knowles in relation to the themes of self and collective identity, her concepts and practices of womanhood in the private, social and public spheres and her theology and religious practices raises new question…
A trio of talented women
This study presents new information about three influential women, Mary Morris Knowles, Anna Seward, and Jane Harry Thresher, who supported abolition during the formative period when anti-slavery sentiment crystallized into the national campaign against the slave trade. Focusing on their connections, political ideologies and pro-abolition activities indicates important ties to radical Patriot ideas, ‘the politics of complexion’ and the power of p…
The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
A College for Appalachia
Interviewing Appalachia
Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’
(1993). Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’: The making of the British anti‐slave trade ethic. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 162-184
The Appalachian Regional Commission
The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
This study presents new information about the four Quaker businessmen who helped found the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained active in the late anti-slave trade movement throughout their lifetimes. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, the study traces the close personal, business, social and religious ties binding the men together and shaping their abolition activities and arguments. By closely examining the lives of Joseph…
Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’
(1993). Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’: The making of the British anti‐slave trade ethic. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 162-184
Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’
(1993). Joseph Woods, ‘merchant and philosopher’: The making of the British anti‐slave trade ethic. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 162-184
The Appalachian Regional Commission
Interviewing Appalachia
A College for Appalachia
The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
A trio of talented women
This study presents new information about three influential women, Mary Morris Knowles, Anna Seward, and Jane Harry Thresher, who supported abolition during the formative period when anti-slavery sentiment crystallized into the national campaign against the slave trade. Focusing on their connections, political ideologies and pro-abolition activities indicates important ties to radical Patriot ideas, ‘the politics of complexion’ and the power of p…
New Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century British Quaker Women
In the last three decades, research on eighteenth-century British Quaker women reflects a range of different methodological perspectives. Recent studies focus on female spiritual development and sense of identity in the formative seventeenth century. New influences and changing contexts in the eighteenth century, especially Quietism, engendered new themes: a continuing concern with self and collective identity; theology and practices; and partici…
Mary Morris Knowles
This essay examines three themes relating to the beliefs and actions of Mary Morris Knowles (1733–1807) as a devout Quaker woman, incorporates new research and places her in multiple contexts within eighteenth-century Quakerism. Considering Knowles in relation to the themes of self and collective identity, her concepts and practices of womanhood in the private, social and public spheres and her theology and religious practices raises new question…
The Business of Abolishing the British Slave Trade, 1783-1807
This study presents new information about the four Quaker businessmen who helped found the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained active in the late anti-slave trade movement throughout their lifetimes. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, the study traces the close personal, business, social and religious ties binding the men together and shaping their abolition activities and arguments. By closely examining the lives of Joseph…
Amanda E. Herbert. Female Alliances
In this groundbreaking work, Amanda E. Herbert presents an innovative analysis of the range and importance of women's friendship networks in late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Britain. She offers a fresh methodological approach, drawing on a wide variety of sources, including letters, diaries, account books, recipes, individually and collectively produced material objects, and gendered social practices to create “a series of interlock…
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Appalachia (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)