Women''s Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870 - A Brief History With Documents

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 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. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others.

About the author

Kathryn Kish Sklar is at SUNY Binghamton.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Na Na
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349626380
• ISBN: 978-1-349-62638-0
• No. of pages: 237
• Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture; Bedford Series in History and; Bedford Series in History and; The Bedford Series in History and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)