Women’s Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement

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. The introductory essay places a new focus on the relationship among campaigns against racial prejudice and the emergence of the women’s rights movement, tracing the cause of women’s rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimk#233;’s campaign against slavery and the emergence of race as a divisive issue that finally split that movement in 1869. A rich collection of nearly 60 documents-10 of them new-includes a range of voices, from free black women activists such as Francis Watkins Harper and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to Quaker abolitionists and their opponents. Document headnotes, maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index have been updated and enrich students’ understanding of this period.

Additional ISBNs: 9781319113124, 1319113125, 9781319169305, 1319169309