And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists

The New York Times–bestselling author of Getting the Love You Want sends out a ‘call for renewed feminist action, based on “the spirit and ethic of love’” (Kirkus Reviews).A decade before the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women in the first instance of political organizing by American women for American women.

Incited by “holy indignation,” these pioneers believed it was their God-given duty to challenge both slavery and patriarchy.