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SUMMARY:Online Talk: Sewing\, Slavery and Social Change: Ruth and its Pol
 itical Moment
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DESCRIPTION:In 1853 when Elizabeth Gaskell brought out her novel Ruth abo
 ut a teenage seamstress\, her city of Manchester was at the centre of th
 e global cotton trade and her country was on the brink of the Crimean Wa
 r. Public opinion was divided over class conflict and international even
 ts. \n\nConcerns about the working and living conditions\, and fears abo
 ut the morality of seamstresses were reflected in art and literature. Bl
 ack Abolitionists on tour from America laid bare the links between Manch
 ester’s cotton mills and the horrors of plantation slavery to British au
 diences. \n\nSo\, what were Elizabeth Gaskell’s links to these African-A
 merican campaigners? How were Unitarians involved in supporting their pu
 blic appearances? And how did Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel emerge from this
  heady mix of international conflict and calls for justice and social ch
 ange?\n\nDr Ingrid Hanson looks at the figure of the seamstress\, abolit
 ionist campaigns and the global connections of Manchester on the edge of
  war.
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