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Informationen zum Autor Carol Faulkner is an Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. She is the author of Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement (2003) and is currently writing a biography of Lucretia Mott. Faulkner has also taught American women's history at SUNY Geneseo, where she received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Klappentext Women in American History to 1880 presents a collection of primary source documents that illuminate the rich diversity of women's experiences from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Carefully chosen readings reveal the simultaneous processes of constructing gender and national identity, and examine how women viewed colonization, slavery, the American Revolution, industrialization, sectional conflict, and emancipation from very different -- and often clashing -- religious, ethnic, racial, and national perspectives. The readings show not only how politicians, businessmen, and writers utilized abstract images of women as symbols for a variety of causes, but also reveal the ways in which many women articulated their own political perspectives. With images, poems, newspaper articles, and personal letters, many of which are collected here for the first time, Women in American History to 1880 illuminates the ways women contributed to and challenged the gender roles that emerged with the young nation and helped shape America's future national identity. Zusammenfassung Women in American History To 1880 presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women from America's colonial period through Reconstruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Series Editors' Preface x Source Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Seekers, 1540-1680 15 1 Luys Hernandez de Biedma on the Destruction of Mavila, 1540 15 2 A Chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc , 1590 17 3 John Rolfe, Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 18 4 Pocahontas , 1616 21 5 Examination of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 23 6 Anne Bradstreet, "A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment," 1650 26 7 John Hammond, Excerpt from Leah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitful Sisters Virginia and Mary-land , 1656 27 8 Samuel Willard on Elizabeth Knapp, 1671-1672 29 Chapter 2: Colonists and Colonized, 1660-1730 35 1 Excerpts from the Code Noir, 1685 35 2 Assembly of Virginia, Act XII, 1662 36 3 Father Chrestien Le Clercq on Micmac Women, 1691 37 4 Examination of Tituba, 1692 38 5 Petition of Abigail Faulkner, 1692 41 6 Fray Francisco de Vargas on Taking Indian Captives, 1696 42 7 John Lawson on Native American Women and Childbirth, 1709 43 8 An Act Concerning Feme Sole Traders, 1718 45 9 Letters of Sister Mary Magdalene Hachard, 1728 47 Chapter 3: Conceptions of Liberty, 1730-1780 50 1 John Taylor, Excerpt from The Value of a Child , 1753 50 2 William Smith on the Relations between Indians and Their Captives during Pontiac's War, 1764 53 3 Fugitive Slave Ad for Violet, 1766 54 4 Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield," 1770 55 5 Edenton Ladies' Agreement, 1774 58 6 A Society of Patriotic Ladies , 1775 59 7 Hannah Griffitts, "Upon Reading a book Entituled [sic] Common Sense," 1776 60 Chapter 4: Revolution, 1780-1810 63 1 Jemima Wilkinson, Excerpts from The Universal Friend's Advice, to Those of the Same Religious Society , 1784 63 2 Indenture of Eunice Allis, 1789 65 3 Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 66 4 Sarah Pierce, Verses, 1792 70 5 Susanna Rowson, Excerpt from Charlotte Temple , 1794 72 ...
