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Sewing circles provided women with intense exposure to anti-slavery literature, slogans, and leaders. These circles were most prominent from 1835 to 1860. Women involved in these circles had an extreme devotion to them. Many of the women devoted to abolition were very religious, particularly different denominations of Christianity.
Sewing circle participants, usually women, typically meet regularly for the purpose of sewing. They often also support charitable causes while chatting, gossiping, and/or discussing. For example, in ante-bellum America , local anti-slavery or missionary "sewing circles were complementary, not competing, organisations that allowed [women] to act ...
She founded the Worcester Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle and served as its president in 1839. [2] She assisted and served on committees of the Worcester County Anti-Slavery Society, South Division from 1841 and was the first woman to serve as one of the vice presidents of the South Division before her death in 1858. [2]
They collected funds for their society and the American Anti-Slavery Society. The funds allocated for the society also supported the Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, which was a smaller group under their original organization. This auxiliary sewed the society's slogan onto different items to gain support and bring attention to their group. [4]
For example, the well-known piece of abolitionist literature, The Anti-Slavery Alphabet was printed and sold at the 1846 Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Fair. PFASS meetings consisted of coordinating activities for the fair and organizing sewing circles. By the 1850s, the fairs became elaborate occasions.
The Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society held a regular fundraising fair to sell sewn and embroidered things with anti-slavery mottoes on them. [1] This AntiSlavery Fair was a place where the members could sell the things they made within Fall River, or in Boston. [1]
He married Sarah Hussey (August 26, 1799 – March 9, 1858), who organized the Worcester Anti-Slavery Sewing Circle and Worcester County Anti-Slavery Society, South Division. She was the daughter of Tristram Hussey and Sarah Folger of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Lucretia Mott was her cousin.
After her husband, Menno Steiner, died in 1911, Clara Eby Steiner began to organize women to promote a general society of sewing circles [3] which came to fruition in 1916 with Mary Burkhard as the first president. From 1922, the general society was named the Mennonite Women's Missionary Society.