Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Short History with Documents

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-312-10144-2
Verlag: WORTH PUBL INC

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: The Bedford Series in History and Culture

Combining documents with an interpretative 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 in the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimkés' 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 includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodora Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others, giving students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation. Headnotes to the documents, ten illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a list of the main figures, and an index is also included.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- Preface.- PART 1.- Introduction: The Antebellum Women's Rights Movement Emerges within Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1830-1870.- Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society.- eeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833.- Redefining the Duties of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in New York, July 1836-May 1837.- Redefining the Rights of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in New England, May-August 1837.- Defending Women's Rights: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in Print, 1837.- The Anti-Slavery Movement Splits Over the Question of Women's Rights, 1837-1840.- An Independent Women's Rights Movement is Born, 1840-1851.- The New Movement Splits over the Race Question, 1866-1869.- PART II.- The Documents.- Appendices.- Chronology.- Questions for Consideration.- Select Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

KATHRYN KISH SKLAR is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her writings focus on the history of women's participation in social movements, women's voluntary organisations, and American public culture. She has received Ford, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Mellon Foundation Fellowships, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.