The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 77
... sisters were that greatest of rarities , southern abolition- ists . Daughters of the assistant chief justice of South Carolina , the Grimké sisters were raised in a typical plantation household . What they saw of slavery shocked them ...
... sisters were that greatest of rarities , southern abolition- ists . Daughters of the assistant chief justice of South Carolina , the Grimké sisters were raised in a typical plantation household . What they saw of slavery shocked them ...
Page 78
Gerda Lerner. long both sisters had taken the decisive step of becoming " agents " and traveling lecturers of the American Anti - Slavery Society . The sisters ' spectacular lecture tour in New England attracted large audiences who came ...
Gerda Lerner. long both sisters had taken the decisive step of becoming " agents " and traveling lecturers of the American Anti - Slavery Society . The sisters ' spectacular lecture tour in New England attracted large audiences who came ...
Page 79
... sisters ended their speaking tour with Angelina Grimké presenting an antislavery petition , signed by twenty thousand women , to the Massachusetts legislature . It was the first time any woman had ever testified before a legislative ...
... sisters ended their speaking tour with Angelina Grimké presenting an antislavery petition , signed by twenty thousand women , to the Massachusetts legislature . It was the first time any woman had ever testified before a legislative ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became birth control black women Boston campaign career Carrie Chapman Catt cause Charlotte Perkins Charlotte Perkins Gilman child church cities Civil College colonial America colonial women contribution cultural death decades developed Dorothea Dix economic Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emma equal factory federal amendment female suffrage feminist field Frances Frances Wright freedom frontier Gilman girls Grimké Grimké sisters Harriet husband industry Jane Addams labor ladies later leaders leadership legislation literary lives Lucretia Mott male Margaret Sanger marriage married Mary Baker Eddy Massachusetts ment mother National NAWSA nineteenth century nurses NWTUL organized percent pioneer plantation political President reform role Sarah Sarah Grimké sisters slave slavery social society soldiers South southern status struggle suffragists Susan teachers tion United vote wages Willard wives woman suffrage woman's rights movement workers York
References to this book
Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |