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Figure 2. Isaac Cruikshank. “The Gradual Abolition off [sic] the Slave Trade, - or
Leaving of Sugar by Degrees,” 1792. Courtesy of British Museum, London.
Despite lingering questions about women’s ability to boycott sugar, by late 1791
abstention rhetoric was clearly gendered. Increasingly, tracts and other literature targeted
women. For example, one pamphlet attempted to capitalize on the popularity of the new
Duchess of York, hoping to enlist her support and bring attention to the abstention
movement through a public appeal to her “heart of sensibility.” 64 Newspapers carried
64 An Address to Her Royal Highness the Dutchess [sic] of York, against the Use of Sugar
(London: n.p., 1792), 10. In the fall of 1791, Princess Frederica of Prussia wed Prince Frederick, Duke of
York. See H.M. Stephens, “Frederick, Prince, duke of York and Albany (1763-1827),” rev. John Van der
Kiste, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004); online ed., ed. Lawrence Goldman, October 2007,
http://libproxy.uta.edu:2422/view/article/10139 (accessed February 28, 2008); Lady’s Magazine, or
Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriate Solely to their Use and Amusement, October 1791.
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