ROOT OF BITTERNESS

by Cott, Nancy F.; Boydston, Jeanne; Braude, Ann; Ginzberg, Lori D.; Ladd-Taylor, Molly

• ISBN13: 9781555532550
• ISBN10: 1555532551
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Colonial Encounters and Communities
Examination of Anne Hutchinson	p. 3
Church Trial and Excommunication of Ann Hibbens	p. 11
Ordinary Dealings at Colonial County Courts	p. 17
Case of Sarah Taylor, Indentured Servant	p. 24
Statutes on Slave Descent	p. 29
Susanna Martin, on Trial for Witchcraft	p. 32
Carolina Women Observed	p. 36
A Rape on the Body of Anne Eastworthy	p. 42
A Law for Regulating Midwives	p. 44
Transitions to a New Republic
Sarah Osborn's Religious Conversion	p. 49
Query to the Philadelphia Baptist Association	p. 54
Sarah Harlan's Will	p. 56
Letter from an Indentured Servant	p. 59
Diary of Mary Cooper	p. 61
Moll Placket-Hole	p. 67
Abigail Adam's Letters from the Home Front	p. 71
An Adolescent's Wartime Diary	p. 77
Learning by Doing Women's Work	p. 83
A Father's Advice to His Daughter	p. 91
Eliza Southgate Reflects on the Sexes	p. 98
Petition on Behalf of Fanny, a Slave Woman	p. 103
Women's Work in the Market Economy	p. 105
Woman's Sphere and Women's Employments
Maria Stewart Sees Chains on the Soul	p. 113
Striking Tailoresses Speak	p. 118
Sarah Grimke on the Condition of Women in the United States	p. 123
The Legal Rights and Wrongs of Women	p. 128
The Peculiar Responsibilities, and Difficulties, of American Women	p. 132
"Sweethearts and Wives": A Story from Godey's Lady's Book	p. 138
A Parlor Ballad	p. 148
Margaret McCarthy Writes Home	p. 152
Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday	p. 156
Domestic Management in the Letters of Martha Coffin Wright	p. 161
A New York Woman on a North Carolina Plantation	p. 167
Women and the National Mission
Cherokee Women Address Their Nation	p. 177
Missionary to Indian Territory	p. 179
Eulalia Perez in Mexican California	p. 185
Reaching Oregon	p. 193
A Moral Reformer Makes Her Rounds	p. 198
An Afternoon Call	p. 204
A Daughter of Temperance Exhorts Her Sex	p. 208
Planting Catholic Schools in North America	p. 213
Since We Came to America	p. 218
Iron Teeth (Mah-i-Ti-Wo-Nee-Ni) Remembers the Cheyenne Removal	p. 224
The Great Indignation Meeting	p. 230
Slavery, War, and Emancipation
James Curry's Mother	p. 239
Virginia Ladies' Petition to Eliminate Slavery	p. 243
An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States	p. 246
Narratives of Escaped Slaves	p. 252
Sarah Parker Remond on American Slavery	p. 258
A Slave Writes to Her Former Mistress	p. 260
Louisa McCord on Enfranchisement of Woman	p. 262
Union Women in Wartime	p. 268
Gertrude Clanton Thomas's Civil War Diary	p. 274
A Freedwoman before the Southern Claims Commission	p. 281
The Race Problem - An Autobiography	p. 286
Health, Medicine, and Sexuality
On Female Health in America	p. 293
Lucy Thurston's Surgical Operation	p. 298
The Murders of Marriage	p. 303
Testimony as to the Insanity of Elizabeth Packard	p. 309
Abortion in New York	p. 315
A Fox Woman Comes of Age	p. 321
The Working Girls of Boston	p. 325
Sex in Education	p. 330
Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi on Female Invalidism	p. 334
Effeminate Men, Masculine Women	p. 338
The Story of Aunt Easter	p. 341
Women's Work in an Industrial Age
Have Been Busy All Day	p. 347
The Sweating System, Charity, and Organization	p. 353
Speak-out on Domestic Service	p. 359
A Domestic Problem	p. 364
Condition of Women in Rural Alabama	p. 367
Leonara Barry Reports to the Knights of Labor	p. 372
Rescued Chinese Prostitutes Testify at the Industrial Commission	p. 377
Jane Addams on Idle Daughters and Working Mothers	p. 384
Women's Evolution from Economic Dependence	p. 391
New Women, New Worlds
Frances Willard Heralds "The Dawn of Woman's Day"	p. 399
Mary Church Terrell Greets the National Congress of Mothers	p. 406
Catholics Debate the Woman Question	p. 409
Mary Lease, Prophet of the Farmers' Alliance	p. 414
To the President, in the Negro's Behalf	p. 420
An Indian Teacher among Indians	p. 423
The Story of a Sweatshop Girl	p. 426
The Typewriter Girl	p. 433
Murray Hall Fooled Many Shrewd Men	p. 436
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