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Antebellum women private, public, partisan /

Main Author: Lasser, Carol.
Other Authors: Robertson, Stacey M.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2010]
Physical Description: xx, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: American controversies series.
Subjects:
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Susannah Rowson, excerpts from Charlotte Temple, 1791
  • Martha Ballard's diary : two months in the life of a Maine midwife, 1800
  • Eliza Leslie, "The slaves," a short story from The young ladies' mentor, 1803
  • Tapping Reeve, excerpts from The law of Baron and Femme, 1816
  • Cherokee Women's Petitions 1817, 1818, and 1831
  • Lydia Maria Child, excerpts from The American frugal housewife, 1830
  • Alexis de Tocqueville, excerpts from Democracy in America, volume II, 1840
  • Catharine Beecher, excerpts from A treatise on domestic economy, 1841
  • Letters by Amy Galusha, A Lowell Mill girls, 1849-1851
  • Salem Female charitable Society Constitution, 1804
  • African Dorcas Association, 1828
  • Female Moral Reform Society report, 1835
  • Maria Sturges, address to Christian females in slaveholding states, 1836
  • Fathers and Rulers Petition, 1836
  • Controversy over abolitionist lectures of the Grimké sisters, 1837
  • Mary Lyon's plans for the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1837
  • Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones, "Anti-slavery sewing circles," 1847
  • "World's" Temperance Conventions, 1853
  • "Linda Brent" (Harriet Jacobs), excerpts from Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by herself, 1861
  • Mary Davis letter in support of abolition and the liberty party, 1847
  • Resolutions and declaration of sentiments adopted by the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, 1848
  • Mary Sheldon's composition book entry : "Women and politics," 1848
  • Jane Swisshelm attacks the Compromise of 1850
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe, excerpts from Uncle Tom's cabin, 1851
  • Sojourner truth's "Aren't I a woman?" speech, as reported in 1851 and 1863
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on free labor, 1854
  • Jessie Frémont song, 1856
  • Lydia Maria Child's letter to Governor Wise regarding John Brown, 1859
  • Susan B. Anthony letter describing a "wide awake" Republican Serenade, 1860
  • Anna Dickinson's letter in support of Lincoln, 1864.

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