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Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870

A Brief History with Documents

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture (BSHC)

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Table of contents (55 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Introduction: “Our Rights as Moral Beings”

    1. Introduction: “Our Rights as Moral Beings”

      • Kathryn Kish Sklar
      Pages 1-76
  3. The Documents

    1. Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831–1833

      1. Lucretia Mott
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 77-78
      2. Maria Stewart
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 79-80
      3. Maria Stewart
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 81-82
      4. Maria Stewart
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 82-83
    2. Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimké Speak in New York, July 1836–May 1837

      1. American Anti-Slavery Society
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 84-85
      2. Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 86-88
      3. Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 89-91
      4. Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 92-93
      5. Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 93-94
      6. Sarah and Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 94-96
      7. Angelina and Sarah Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 96-97
      8. Sarah Forten
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 98-100
      9. Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 100-103
      10. Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 104-107
      11. Catharine E. Beecher
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 107-110
    3. Redefining the Rights of Women: The Grimké Sisters Speak in Massachusetts, Summer 1837

      1. Angelina Grimké
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 110-112
      2. Maria Chapman
        • Kathryn Kish Sklar
        Pages 112-114

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    Kathryn Kish Sklar

About the author

Kathryn Kish Sklar is at SUNY Binghamton.

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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