Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement
A Short History with Documents
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Beschreibung
Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights in America from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s and the emergence of race as a divisive issue that finally split that movement in 1869. A rich collection of over 50 documents gives students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation.
- Includes a variety of documents including diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others including
- Provides a synthesis of evidence and perspectives which gives students a rich introduction to the history of this period and develops their historiographical skills
- Headnotes to the documents, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a chronology, and an index provide students with additional pedagogical support
- Written by an expert in the field
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Kathryn Kish Sklar
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