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Antislavery in the United States 1776-1865:
A Pathfinder

Abby Kelley Foster

Articles - Books - Websites

Articles

Foster, Abby Kelley. “What Hinders Us? An Item of Experience.” Liberty Bell (1858): 21-28.

Kelley, Abby. “What is Real Anti-Slavery Work?” Liberty Bell (1845): 202-208.

Books

Sterling, Dorothy. Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1991
A thoroughly researched and well-written biography.

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Websites

Carr, Glynis. Index to The Liberty Bell.
The Liberty Bell is an American Anti-Slavery publication containing essays and poetry from various abolitionists, including Abby Kelley.

Liberty Farm - NRHP Travel Itinerary
The Liberty Farm link contains a brief biography on Abby Kelley Foster and her home in Worcester, Massachusetts. This web page is part of the Places Where Women Made History site and authored by the National Park Service National Register of Historical Places.

Making of America (MOA) - Joint venture between Cornell University and the University of Michigan.
This digital library contains scanned images of US primary sources from 1850 to 1877. Some material pertaining to Abby Kelley may be found in this site. The Cornell version focuses on popular journals of the time. The University of Michigan version focuses on books/monographs.

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
The Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections maintains this excellent resource containing antislavery material. One may search or browse this website for digitized pamphlets pertaining to Abby Kelley.

Worcester Women’s History Project
Although this page does not contain a biography of Abby Kelley Foster, it does contain information about Alla Paulina Wright Foster, Abby’s daughter. The page links to a Kelley Family Tree and a Foster Family Tree. Other links on this page provide biographical information on those involved in the antislavery movement.