Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870: A Brief History with Documents

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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 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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxi Introduction: “Our Rights as Moral Beings”....Pages 1-76 Lucretia Mott....Pages 77-78 Constitution of the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society: 1831....Pages 78-79 Maria Stewart....Pages 79-80 Maria Stewart....Pages 81-82 Maria Stewart....Pages 82-83 American Anti-Slavery Society....Pages 84-85 Angelina Grimké....Pages 86-88 Angelina Grimké....Pages 89-91 Angelina Grimké....Pages 92-93 Angelina Grimké....Pages 93-94 Sarah and Angelina Grimké....Pages 94-96 Angelina and Sarah Grimké....Pages 96-97 Sarah Forten....Pages 98-100 Angelina Grimké....Pages 100-103 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women....Pages 104-107 Catharine E. Beecher....Pages 107-110 Angelina Grimké....Pages 110-112 Maria Chapman....Pages 112-114 Angelina Grimké....Pages 115-116 Angelina Grimké....Pages 117-117 Sarah and Angelina Grimké....Pages 118-119 Pastoral Letter: The General Association of Massachusetts to Churches under Their Care: July 1837....Pages 119-121 Lecture by Albert Folsom, Pastor, Universalist Church: Hingham, Mass., August 27, 1837....Pages 121-122 Angelina Grimké....Pages 122-124 Angelina Grimké....Pages 124-127 Theodore Weld....Pages 127-128 John Greenleaf Whittier....Pages 129-130 Angelina Grimké....Pages 130-134 Resolutions Adopted by the Providence, Rhode Island, Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society: October 21, 1837....Pages 134-135 Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society....Pages 135-141 Angelina Grimké....Pages 142-145 Sarah Grimké....Pages 145-149 Sarah Grimké....Pages 150-152 Angelina Grimké Weld....Pages 153-156 Henry Clarke Wright....Pages 157-159 Angelina Grimké....Pages 160-161 Lydia Maria Child....Pages 161-163 The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society....Pages 163-165 Elizabeth Cady Stanton....Pages 165-168 Elizabeth Cady Stanton....Pages 169-170 Elizabeth Cady Stanton....Pages 170-172 Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention: Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19–20, 1848....Pages 172-179 Sojourner Truth....Pages 179-180 Abby H. Price....Pages 180-183 Proceedings of the Colored Convention: Cleveland, September 6, 1848....Pages 183-185 “Woman’s Rights”: October 1, 1849....Pages 185-187 “Just Treatment of Licentious Men”: January 1838....Pages 187-189 Henry Clarke Wright....Pages 190-191 Jane Swisshelm....Pages 191-192 Parker Pillsbury....Pages 193-194 Jane Swisshelm....Pages 195-196 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper....Pages 196-199 Equal Rights Association....Pages 200-203 Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association: New York, 1869....Pages 203-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-216