Foreword.- Preface.- PART 1.- Introduction: The Antebellum Women's Rights Movement Emerges within Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1830-1870.- Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society.- eeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833.- Redefining the Duties of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in New York, July 1836-May 1837.- Redefining the Rights of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in New England, May-August 1837.- Defending Women's Rights: Angelina and Sarah Grimké in Print, 1837.- The Anti-Slavery Movement Splits Over the Question of Women's Rights, 1837-1840.- An Independent Women's Rights Movement is Born, 1840-1851.- The New Movement Splits over the Race Question, 1866-1869.- PART II.- The Documents.- Appendices.- Chronology.- Questions for Consideration.- Select Bibliography.- Index.
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 organisations, and American public culture. 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.
'Sklar has produced a first-rate piece of work. Her introductory essay skilfully uses biography to explore the character of abolitionism and the ways in which the campaign for women's rights emerged from the struggle against slavery. The choice of documents is excellent and will encourage students to understand and make connections between two of the most important antebellum reform movements' - Julie Roy Jeffrey, Goucher College 'This book offers an excellent sense of the myriad issues related to race and gender that were central to the spread of abolitionism and the emergency of women's rights in antebellum America. Highly accessible and eloquently presented, this volume incorporates both interpretive text and critical documents and thus provides a superb teaching tool for undergraduate classes.' - Nancy Hewitt, Rutgers University
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