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How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lasser, Carol
Otros Autores: Robertson, Stacey M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010.
Colección:American controversies series.
Temas:
1700-1899
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.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Femmes > Activité politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Activité politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Political activity
Women > Social conditions
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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