Their Right to Speak - Women''s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates

Klappentext and engagingly written! this is the first study to fully integrate women's! Native American! and African American rights debates. Zusammenfassung In this groundbreaking study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about African Americans—abolition of slavery and African colonization—revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make their voices heard. Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction 1. "Causes of Alarm to Our Whole Country": Articulating the Crisis of Indian Removal 2. "A Right to Speak on the Subject": Petitioning the Federal Government against Removal and Slavery 3. "The Difference between Cruelty to the Slave, and Cruelty to the Poor Indian": Imagining Native and African Americans as Objects of Advocacy 4. "Merely Public Opinion in Legal Forms": Imagining Native and African Americans in the Public and Political Spheres 5. "On the Very Eve of Coming Out": Declaring One's Antislavery Affiliations 6. "Coming from One Who Has a Right to Speak": Debating Colonization and Abolition Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Alisse Portnoy, Portnoy Alisse
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2005
• EAN: 9780674019225
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01922-5
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Political activism, Indigenous Peoples, Sociology & anthropology, Feminism and feminist theory, Relating to Native American people, US South, US South: South Atlantic States, Political activism / Political engagement