Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America.(Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society)(Book review)

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Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America. By Beth A. Salerno. (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 233. Cloth, $38.00.)

Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. By Eric Burin. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xiv, 223. Cloth, $59.95.)

During his visit to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the American propensity for volunteerism and establishing associations. Indeed, for Tocqueville, in order to ...

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