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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.
List of contents
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.
