THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT - The University of Texas at Arlington

enefitted from the community of the museum’s board and volunteers: Helen and Oliver
Albritton, Doug Tiller, Jimmie Buchanan, and Jay and Lucy Waterman. I am particularly
grateful for the friendship of the museum’s benefactors, the late Charles and Peggy
Pearce.
I appreciate the support of scholars outside my immediate academic communities.
Carol Faulkner and Stacey Robertson have given generously of their time and
scholarship. Both have taken time out of their busy schedules to read papers or chapter
drafts and give thoughtful comments. They have played an important role in shaping my
thinking about women abolitionists and free produce. I am grateful to Bruce Laurie and
Lynne Getz for their comments on a paper I presented at the 14 th Berkshire Conference
on the History of Women. Seth Offenbach, Winifred Connerton, and Julie Turner
provided insightful comments on various drafts of this dissertation. As well, I appreciate
Christopher Densmore’s willingness to aid a novice Quaker scholar. The models of
teaching and scholarship given by Steven E. Woodworth, Charles Grear, Susannah Ural,
and Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz have been invaluable. I want to thank Kenneth Corfield as
well for responding positively to my queries about Elizabeth Heyrick. I appreciate the
supportive environment created and maintained by Thomas B. Jankowski at PhinisheD.
I received research funding from the American Historical Association; the
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Texas, Fort Worth Town Chapter;
Trudy and Ben Termini Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Texas at
Arlington; and the History Department, University of Texas at Arlington. Funding from
the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History allowed me to participate in the
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