A review by macabrelibrarian
Radical Spirits, Second Edition: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude

4.0

As I read for my thesis, I become more and more interested in the Spiritualist movement and how it related to the early women’s rights movement. This book gave me the rudimentary background I needed on the history of Spiritualism in general and made me realize that there was a huge gap in my knowledge of this topic. I had no idea that Spiritualism arose from the Quakers or the basic individualist tenets behind it, nor that the movement wasn’t solely comprised of “dark circles” and spirit manifestations in private homes– that it actually provided a platform for women to deliver public speeches on a large scale for the first time in American history.


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