Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870 Vol. 1 : A Short History with Documents,9780312101442

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Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870 Vol. 1 : A Short History with Documents

by Sklar

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9780312101442

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3/24/2000

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Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

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 Grimke'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 includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkes, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others, giving students immediate access to the world of abolitionists and women's right advocates and their passionate struggles for emancipation. Headnotes to the documents, 14 illustrations, a bibliography, questions to consider, a chronology, and an index are also included.

Author Biography

KATHRYN KISH SKLAR is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her writings focus on the history of women's participation in social movements, women's voluntary organizations, and American public culture. Her books include Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973) and Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), both of which received the Berkshire Prize. She has received Ford, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Mellon Foundation Fellowships, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Foreword

vii

Preface

List of Illustrations

xxi

PART ONE Introduction: ``Our Rights as Moral Beings''

(76)

Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society

(4)

Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833

(10)

Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimke Speak in New York, July 1836-May 1837

(12)

Redefining the Rights of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimke Speak in Massachusetts, Summer 1837

(12)

The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Question of Women's Rights, 1837-1840

(7)

An Independent Women's Rights Movement Is Born, 1840-1858

(25)

Epilogue: The New Movement Splits Over the Question of Race, 1850-1869

(5)

PART TWO The Documents

(1)

Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833

(7)

Life and Letters, 1884

(1)

Lucretia Mott

Mott remembers the 1833 founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

Constitution of the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society, 1831

(1)

African American women organize for mutual assistance in Boston

Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, 1831

(2)

Maria Stewart

An African American Bostonian urges her people to organize

Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, 1832

(1)

Maria Stewart

Stewart urges black and white women to reflect on their social status

Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston, 1833

(2)

Maria Stewart

Stewart reviews her leadership efforts and the ridicule she faced

Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimke Speak in New York, July 1836-May 1837

(26)

American Anti-Slavery Society, Petition Form for Women, 1834

(2)

Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836

(3)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke offers specific actions southern women can take

Letter to Jane Smith, New York, December 17, 1836

(3)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke expresses difficulties and hopes in response to the prejudice against women speaking in public life

Letter to Jane Smith, New York, January 20, 1837

(1)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke describes her growing love for the work

Letter to Jane Smith, New York, February 4, 1837

(1)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke begins to mention women's rights in her talks

Letter to Sarah Douglass, Newark, N.J., February 22, 1837

(4)

Sarah

Angelina Grimke

Mingling with free blacks, the sisters express caution and hope

Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Letter to Sarah Douglass, New York City, April 3, 1837

The sisters encourage black women's activism, and speak to men as well as women

(2)

Letter to Angelina Grimke, Philadelphia, April 15, 1837

(2)

Sarah Forten

Forten considers her experience of racial prejudice against free blacks

An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, 1837

100

(4)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke's women's rights arguments become available in print

Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Proceedings, New York City, May 9-12, 1837

104

(3)

An unprecedented event with an unprecedented resolution

Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females, 1837

107

(3)

Catharine E. Beecher

The first printed opposition comes from a woman

Redefining the Rights of Women: The Grimke Sisters Speak in Massachusetts, Summer 1837

110

(43)

Letter to Jane Smith, Boston, May 29, 1837

110

(2)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke is amazed by their success

``To Female Anti-Slavery Societies throughout New England,'' Boston, June 7, 1837

112

(3)

Maria Chapman

Chapman requests support for the sisters as they begin to tour Massachusetts

Letter to Jane Smith, Danvers, Mass., June 1837

115

(2)

Angelina Grimke

The sisters address large audiences of men and women

Letter to Jane Smith, new Rowley, Mass., July 25, 1837

117

(1)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke expresses radical views on government as well as women's rights

Letter to Amos Phelps, Groton, Mass., August 3, 1837

118

(1)

Sarah

Angelina Grimke

The sisters stand up to the clergy within the American Anti-Slavery Society

Pastoral Letter: The General Association of Massachusetts to Churches under Their Care, July 1837

119

(2)

The Massachusetts clergy condemn women's speaking in public

Lecture by Albert Folsom, Pastor, Universalist Church, Hingham, Mass., August 27, 1837

121

(1)

A fashionable clergyman adds to the rebuke

Letter to Jane Smith, Groton, Mass., August 10, 1837

122

(2)

Angelina Grimke

Thousands hear the Grimkes' message

Letter to Theodore Weld, Groton, Mass., August 12, 1837

124

(3)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke appeals to a friend for support in her struggle

Letter to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, August 15, 1837

127

(2)

Theodore Weld

Weld argues for putting the antislavery cause first

Letter to Angelina and Sarah Grimke, New York City, August 14, 1837

129

(1)

John Greenleaf Whittier

Whittier cautions the sisters not to divert their energies

Letter to Theodore Dwight Weld and John Greenleaf Whittier, Brookline, Mass., August 20, 1837

130

(4)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke argues that women's rights must be defended now

Resolutions Adopted by the Providence, Rhode Island, Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, October 21, 1837

134

(1)

The society publicizes its support for women's rights

Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, Annual Report, 1837

135

(7)

A powerful organization reviews an eventful year

``Human Rights Not Founded on Sex'': Letter to Catharine Beecher, August 2, 1837

142

(3)

Angelina Grimke

``Legal Disabilities of Women'': Letter to Mary Parker, September 6, 1837

145

(5)

Sarah Grimke

``Relation of Husband and Wife'': Letter to Mary Parker, September 1837

150

(3)

Sarah Grimke

The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Women's Rights Question, 1837-1840

153

(12)

Speech at Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, May 16, 1838

153

(4)

Angelina Grimke Weld

Grimke is undeterred by the mob trying to disrupt the assembly

Letter to The Liberator, New York, May 15, 1840

157

(3)

Henry Clarke Wright

Wright describes how and why the ``new organization'' was formed

Letter to Anne Warren Weston, Fort Lee, N.J., July 15, 1838

160

(1)

Angelina Grimke

Grimke emphasizes the importance of domestic life for women's rights advocates

Letter to Angelina Grimke, Boston, September 2, 1839

161

(2)

Lydia Maria Child

A prominent woman abolitionist reviews the split

The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Annual Meeting, October 1839

163

(2)

A leading women's association splits

An Independent Women's Rights Movement Is Born, 1840-1858

165

(26)

On Meeting Lucretia Mott, London, June 1840

165

(4)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Letter to Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld, London, June 25, 1840

169

(1)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Stanton describes her immersion in reform culture

Planning the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

170

(2)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19-20, 1848

172

(7)

Speech at Akron Women's Rights Convention, Ohio, June 1851

179

(1)

Sojourner Truth

A charismatic black woman defends women's rights

Address to the ``Woman's Rights Convention,'' Worcester, Mass., October 1850

180

(3)

Abby H. Price

Women's rights conventions flourish in antebellum public culture

Proceedings of the Colored Convention, Cleveland, September 6, 1848

183

(2)

Three cheers for woman's rights within the Colored Convention Movement

``Woman's Rights,'' October 1, 1849

185

(2)

Women claim their rights in the temperance movement

``Just Treatment of Licentious Men,'' January 1838

187

(3)

Women assert their rights in the Moral Reform Movement

Marriage and parentage, 1858

190

(1)

Henry Clarke Wright

An abolitionist supports women's reproductive rights

Epilogue: The New Movement Splits Over the Question of Race, 1850-1869

191

(20)

The Saturday Visiter, November 2, 1850

191

(2)

Jane Swisshelm

Swisshelm argues that race is not a women's issue

Letter to Jane Swisshelm, November 18, 1850

193

(2)

Parker Pillsbury

Pillsbury defends the rights of black women

``Woman's Rights and the Color Question,'' November 23, 1850

195

(1)

Jane Swisshelm

Swisshelm replies to Pillsbury

Speech at the Eleventh Woman's Rights Convention, New York, May 1866

196

(4)

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A leading black writer addresses the race issue

Equal Rights Association, Proceedings, New York City, may 1869

200

(3)

Black and white delegates debate the relationship between black rights and women's rights

Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association, New York, 1869

203

(8)

APPENDICES

Questions for Consideration

205

(2)

Selected Bibliography

207

(4)

Index

211

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