Maria Weston Chapman, French Salons, and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8959175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Rivington (0000-0003-3254-7265, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-81 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x23000481 |
| OpenAlex | W4387958462 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
This article examines the idea of anti-slavery sociability as part of a wider analysis of the informal elements of the transatlantic anti-slavery movement. It considers how American abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman drew support for the American anti-slavery cause from French salons during her time spent living in Paris from 1848 to 1855. This case-study highlights how a focus on the informal dimensions of anti-slavery activism illuminates the often underappreciated work of female abolitionists in the transatlantic reform sphere. Through the connections she established with the likes of French writer Victor Hugo and Russian exile Nicholas Tourgueneff at salons in Paris, most notably that of Mary Clarke Mohl on the Rue de Bac, Chapman was able to cultivate European support for abolitionism in myriad ways. This included financial donations, goods to be sold at anti-slavery bazaars, and, perhaps most importantly, testimonies against American slavery from renowned Europeans like Hugo that could be republished in the United States
Abolitionism · Art · Art history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
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Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution
Selling Antislavery
Freedom’s Debtors
Advocates of Freedom
An Abolitionist Abroad
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Elite Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century France
Throwing pearls before swine’
Women of the Anti-Slavery Movement
Anti-Slavery Cosmopolitanism in the Black Atlantic
Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Black Cosmopolitans
The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |