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SUMMARY:Museum Enrichment Series for All (M.E.S.A.): Abolitionist Workbags
DESCRIPTION:Join Lynn Museum & Arts Center on the second Wednesday of each month at noon for MESA (Museum Enrichment Series for All). This lecture series covers wellness, genealogy, and current events, featuring local experts, community members, Museum staff, and others.
This talk, given by Diane Caulier, will focus on “anti-slavery workbags,” which were produced by a group of British women in the first half of the nineteenth century. At a time when women had virtually no political rights, they managed to enter the political sphere in unexpected ways. These abolitionist bags are the epitome of a specific type of white feminine activism that developed in Britain in the context of the abolitionist movement. Indeed, the conception, production and distribution of abolitionist bags placed these women in a constant state of negotiation between the enclosed bounds of femininity and the public sphere of political activism. These bags also circulated in the US, and even though few have been preserved to this day, the Lynn Museum & Arts Center is extremely fortunate to have two of these items in its collections. Studying these objects contributes to understanding how nineteenth-century women, both in the UK and in the US, found ways to participate in the political debates of their time, in spite of their systematic exclusion from the male political sphere.

From Our Speaker:
“In June 2026, I completed my Master’s degree at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, where I specialized in British history. My Master’s dissertation focused on ‘abolitionist workbags,’ sewn by British and American women to support the movement for the abolition of slavery. I am currently continuing my studies at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where I am continuing to research the involvement of women and children in the abolitionist movement.”
Register here for the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84033483208?pwd=a7H9WQ2CwjVgy2muUUjk0vvgjXf0F6.1
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

 
 
 
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