Women in American History To 1880 presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women from America'scolonial period through Reconstruction.Features images, poems, newspaper articles, and letters not found in other collectionsOffers a balanced approach to women's experiences by representing a diversity of voices and focusing on themes of work, citizenship, representations, and domestic livesIncludes an introductory chapter, document headnotes, questions for further discussion after each chapter, and a bibliography for further study, designed to encourage students to engage with the text INDICE: List of Illustrations.Series Editors’ Preface.Source Acknowledgments.Introduction.Chapter 1: Seekers, 1540-1680.1 Luys Hernández de Biedma on the Destruction of Mavila, 1540.2 A Chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc, 1590.3 John Rolfe,Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614.4 Pocahontas, 1616.5 Examination of Anne Hutchinson, 1637.6 Anne Bradstreet, “A Letter to her Husband Absent upon Public Employment,” 1650.7 John Hammond, Excerpt from Leah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitful Sisters Virginia and Mary-land, 1656.8 Samuel Willard on Elizabeth Knapp,1671-1672.Chapter 2: Colonists and Colonized, 1680-1730.1 Excerpts from the Code Noir, 1685.2 Assembly of Virginia, Act XVI, 1691.3 Father Chrestien Le Clercq on Micmac Women, 1691.4 Examination of Tituba, 1692.5 Petition of Abigail Faulkner, 1692.6 Fray Francisco de Vargas on Taking Indian Captives, 1696.7 John Lawson on Native American Women and Childbirth, 1709.8 An Act Concerning Feme Sole Traders, 1718.9 Letters of Sister Mary Magdalene Hachard, 1728.Chapter3 Conceptions of Liberty, 1730-1780.1 John Taylor, Excerpt from The Value of a Child, 1753.2 William Smith on the Relations between Indians and Their Captives during Pontiac’s War, 1764.3 Fugitive Slave Ad for Violet, 1766.4 Phillis Wheatley, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,” 1770.5 Edenton Ladies’ Agreement, 1774.6 A Society of Patriotic Ladies, 1775.7 Hannah Griffitts,“Upon Reading a book Entituled [sic] Common Sense,” 1776.Chapter 4: Revolution, 1780-1810.1 Jemima Wilkinson, Excerpts from The Universal Friend’s Advice, to Those of the Same Religious Society, 1784.2 Indenture of Eunice Allis, 1789.3 Judith Sargent Murray, ‘‘On the Equality of the Sexes,’’ 1790.4 Sarah Pierce, Verses, 1792.5 Susanna Rowson, Excerpt from Charlotte Temple, 1794.6 Liberty, 1796.7 Excerpt from the Will of David Bush, Connecticut Slave Owner, 1797.8Elizabeth Seton, Letters to Archbishop John Carroll, 1809-1810.9 Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman, 1811.10 Mary Jemison on her Experiences during the AmericanRevolution, 1824.11 William A. Whitehead on New Jersey’s Early Female Voters.Chapter 5: Awakenings, 1810-1835.1 Scenes from a Seminary for Young Ladies, c.1810-1820.2 Frederick Douglass Describes His Mother, 1845.3 Catharine Beecher,“Circular Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States,” 1829.4 Cherokee Women’s Petition against Removal, 1831.5 Mrs. Mary Mathews to Mrs. Lydia Finney, 1831.6 Maria Stewart, Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, 1832.7 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, “On the Use of Free Produce,” 1832.8 Jarena Lee, “My Call toPreach the Gospel,” 1836.Chapter 6: Contested Spheres, 1835-1845.1 Lucy Larcom, Beginning to Work, 1889.2 Angelina Grimké, “An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States,” 1837.3 L.T.Y., “Just Treatment of Licentious Men,” 1838.4 Petition Protesting the Gag Rule, 1838.5 S.E.C., “Mothers and Daughters,” 1840.6 Oregon Missionary Narcissa Whitman, Letter to her Mother, May 2, 1840.7 “Lives of the Nymphs: Amanda B. Thompson and Her Attache,” 1841.8 Catharine Beecher, Excerpt from A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1845.Chapter 7: Partisans,1845-1860.1 Susan Shelby Magoffin Describes Dona Gertrudis “La Tules” Barceló,” 1846.2 Lucretia Mott, Letter to Edmund Quincy, 1848.3 Imogen Mercein Describes the Five Points Mission, 1852.4 Excerpt on Complex Marriage from Bible Communism, 1853.5 Women of the Oneida Community, undated.6 Julia Gardiner Tyler, “To the Duchess of Sutherland and Ladies of England,” 1853.7 Horace Greeley etal., “Woman and Work,” 1854.8 Clarina Howard Nichols, “To the Women of the State of New York,” c.1856.9 Illustration of Women’s Procession, Lynn, Mass., Shoemakers’ Strike, 1860.10 Ernestine Rose on Divorce, 1860.Chapter 8: Civil Wars.1 Louisa May Alcott Treats the Wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1863.2 Advertisement for the Great Western Sanitary Fair, 1863.3 John Burnside and Abisha Scofield, Affidavits on the Removal of Black Soldiers’ Families from.Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864.4 Thomas Nast, Emancipation, 1865.5 Jane Kamper,Milly Johnson, and Rebecca Parsons, Testimony on the Apprenticeship of Their Children, 1864-1867.6 Testimony of Rhoda Ann Childs, 1866.7 Historical Sketch of the Ladies’ Memorial Society of New Bern, North Carolina, 1885.Chapter 9: Redefining Citizenship, 1865-1880.1 Jeannette Gilder and Senator Cattell, Correspondence Regarding Job in the US Mint, 1867-1868.2 Susan B. Anthony, Remarks to the American Equal Rights Association, 1869.3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech on the Acquittal of Daniel McFarland, 1870.4 Our Goddess of Liberty, 1870.5 Mother [Eliza Daniel] Stewart, Excerpt from Memories of the Crusade, 1873.6 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Speech at the Centennial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1875.7 Florence Kelley, Letter to William D. Kelley, 1878.8 Pretty Shield Describes the Disappearance of the Buffalo, 1932.Further Reading.Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-9368-2
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
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- Fecha Publicación: 20/03/2012
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