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Responding to Angelina Grimké’s Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (1836), Catharine Beecher vigorously defended different forms of female power. Her goal of feminizing the teaching profession led her to promote women’s power within the family. Opposing slavery, but fearful of civil war, Beecher promoted more acceptable avenues for change through slow reforms and education.
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Sklar, K.K. (2000). Catharine E. Beecher. In: Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04527-0_17
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