Margaret M R Kellow

Biographic Data

ID952006
NAMEMargaret M R Kellow
GIVEN NAMESMargaret M R
FAMILY NAMEKellow
SIGNATUREKELLOW M M R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Western Ontario
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • Women and Abolitionism in the United States: Recent Historiography

    Open AccessMargaret M R KellowARTICLEHistory Compass2013Cited by: 2References: 16

    The past 20 years have seen substantial developments in the historiography on women and abolitionism in the United States. These include a focus on the experience of African American women both as activists and as objects of the abolitionist movement. Recent studies explore the ways in which religion inspired and shaped American women's commitment to ending slavery. Important work has been done on the ways in which antislavery women functioned as…

  • Chapter Nine. Conflicting Imperatives: Black and White American Abolitionists Debate Slave Redemption

    Margaret M R KellowCHAPTERBuying Freedom2007

  • The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition

    Margaret M R Kellow, Jacqueline Bacon et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2003

    The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition. By Jacqueline Bacon. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. i, 352. Cloth, $39.95.) The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860. By Linda M. Grasso. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 249. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.)Despite the entrenchment of freedom of speech in the Constitution, some people i…

  • Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist

    Margaret M R Kellow, Leila R BrammerARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002Cited by: 2

    Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-- Century American Feminist. By Leila R. Brammer. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 136. $58.00.) History has often been written by winners, but Leila R. Brammer's Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth-Century American Feminist reveals that not all victors find a place in historical record. Some are sidelined by historians in search of clear, uncom…

  • The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement

    Margaret M R Kellow, Margaret Kellow et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2001

    In her study of American antebellvun and wartime abolitionism, Julie Roy Jeffrey argues that "ordinary" women formed the essential foundation of the movement to eradicate slavery.Chiding historians for ignoring the muted masses of female abolitionists, Jeffrey challenges scholars to consider how abolitionism rnight have become marginalized if ordinary women had not pursued reformist roles.If it were not for these women, Jeffrey hypothesizes, abol…

  • Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia

    Margaret M R Kellow, Betty WoodARTICLELabour / Le Travail1998

  • Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust

    Open AccessMargaret M R KellowARTICLEJournal of History1997

    "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust." Canadian Journal of History, 32(1), pp. 135–136

  • What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence Against Wives, by David Peterson del Mar

    Open AccessMargaret M R KellowARTICLEJournal of History1997

  • Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920

    Open AccessMargaret M R KellowARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…1996

    Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method

  • Parables of Possibility: The American Need for Beginnings

    Margaret M R Kellow, Terence MartinARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1996Cited by: 3

    A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity

  • On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage

    Margaret M R Kellow, Genevieve G McbrideARTICLELabour / Le Travail1994

  • Two Perspectives on the Secession Crisis

    Margaret M R KellowARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1990References: 1

    Charles Hoffman and Tess Hoffman. North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xxii + 318 pp. Richard H. Sewell. A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xii + 223 pp. These two books survey the sectional crisis as if from opposite ends of a powerful telescope. Beginning in 1848 with "the legacy of the Mexican War," Richard Sewell'…

  • News From 'An Inert Field of Enquiry

    Margaret M R KellowARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1987

    Anthony J. Barker. Captain Charles Stuart: Anglo- American Abolitionist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xv + 328 pp. James Brewer Stewart. Wendell Phillips: Liberty's Hero. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. xiii + 355 pp. Illus. Is there anything left to say about abolitionism and if there is, is there any point in saying it? The waning of antislavery studies from the heady days of 1960s "neoabolitionism" …