Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870
A Short History with DocumentsSecond Edition ©2019
Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the womens 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
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Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the womens 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 Grimkés 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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE. Introduction: "Our Rights as Moral Beings"
The Second Great Awakening Empowers Women to Speak Out Against Slavery
Angela Grimké’s’s Growing Alienation from Conservative Quakers
Seeking a Voice: Antislavery Women Join Garrison’s Movement, 1831-18
Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina Grimké Leads the Way
Redefining the Rights of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimké Speak in Massachusetts,
Summer 1837
The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Question of Women’s Rights, 1837–1840
An Independent Women’s Rights Movement is Born, 1840–1858
Frances Ellen Watkins Speaks for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1854-1860
Women’s Rights Movement Forges National Organizations that Reflect the Ongoing Struggles with Race in American Society, 1865-1870
PART TWO. The Documents
Women Emerge in Public Life as Writers and Speakers Against Slavery and Racial Prejudice, 1831-1833
1. Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, Preamble to Constitution, 1831
2. Maria Stewart, Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, 1832
3. Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Address before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston, 1832
4. Sarah Mapps Douglass, "Ladies’ Department, Mental Feast," The Liberator, July 21, 1832
5. Maria Stewart, Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832
6. Maria Stewart, Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston, 1833
7. Declaration of Sentiments at the Founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Philadelphia, December 6, 1833
8. Preamble, Constitution of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1837
9. Lucretia Mott, Life and Letters, 1833
Women Claim and Debate the Right to Speak and Act against Slavery and Race Prejudice, July 18364–May 1837
10. American Anti-Slavery Society, Petition Form for Women, 1834
11. Angelina Grimké, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836
12. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, New York, December 17, 1836
13. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, New York, January 20, 1837
14. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, New York, February 4, 1837
15. Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Letter to Sarah Douglass, Newark, N.J., February 22, 1837
16. Angelina E. Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, New York, N.Y., March 22, 1837
17. Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Letter to Sarah Douglass, New York City, April 3, 1837
The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, 1837
18. Sarah Forten, Letter to Angelina Grimké, Philadelphia, April 15, 1837
19. Angelina Grimké, An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, 1837
20. The Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Proceedings, New York City, May 9–12, 1837
21. Catharine E. Beecher, Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females, 1837
The Grimké Sisters Redefine the Rights of Women as Antis-Slavery Speakers, Massachusetts, Summer 1837
22. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, Boston, May 29, 1837
23. Maria Chapman, "To Female Anti-Slavery Societies throughout New England," Boston, June 7, 1837
24. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, Danvers, Mass., June 1837
25. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, New Rowley, Mass., July 25, 1837
26. Pastoral Letter: The General Association of Massachusetts to Churches under Their Care, July 1837
27. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Jane Smith, Groton, Mass., August 10, 1837
28. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Theodore Weld, Groton, Mass., August 12, 1837
29. Theodore Weld, Letter to Sarah and Angelina Grimké, August 15, 1837
30. John Greenleaf Whittier, Letter to Angelina and Sarah Grimké, New York City, August 14, 1837
31. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Theodore Dwight Weld and John Greenleaf Whittier, Brookline, Mass., August 20, 1837
32. Angelina Grimké, "Human Rights Not Founded on Sex": Letter to Catharine Beecher, August 2, 1837
33. Sarah Grimké, "Legal Disabilities of Women": Letter to Mary Parker, September 6, 1837
34. Resolutions Adopted by the Providence, Rhode Island, Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, October 21, 1837
35. "Just Treatment of Licentious Men,": Letter to the Friend of Virtue, January 1838
36. Angelina Grimké Weld, Speech at Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, May 16, 1838
37. The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall, May 17, 1838
The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Women’s Rights Question, 1837–1840
38. Angelina Grimké, Letter to Anne Warren Weston, Fort Lee, N.J., July 15, 1838
39. Lydia Maria Child, Letter to Angelina Grimké, Boston, September 2, 1839
40. The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Annual Meeting, October 1839
41. Henry Clarke Wright, Letter to The Liberator, New York, May 15, 1840
An Independent Women’s Rights Movement Is Born, 1840–18580
42. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Letter to Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld, London, June 25, 1840
43. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Planning the Seneca Falls Convention, 188148
44. Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention held at, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19–20, 1848
45. Proceedings of the Colored Convention, Cleveland, September 6, 1848
46. "Woman’s Rights," The Lily, October 1, 1849
47. Abby H. Price, Address to the "Woman’s Rights Convention," Worcester, Mass., October 1850
The Problematics of Race within the New Movement, 1850
48. Parker Pillsbury, Letter to Jane Swisshelm, November 18, 1850
49. Jane Swisshelm, "Woman’s Rights and the Color Question," November 23, 1850
50. Sojourner Truth, Speech at Akron Women’s Rights Convention, Ohio, June 1851
Free Black Women become Public Speakers against Slavery and Racial Prejudice, 1850-1860
51. Lucy Stanton, "A Plea for the Oppressed," Oberlin Evangelist, December 17, 1850
52. Frances Ellen Watkins, Letters to William Still, 1854-1856
53. Frances Ellen Watkins, "Bury Me in a Free Land," Anti-slavery Bugle, 1858
54. T. R. Davis, "Lectures by Miss Watkins," The Liberator, Margaretta, Ohio, February 924, 1860
The New Movement Debates Questions of Race and Sex, 1866-1869
55. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Speech at the Eleventh Woman’s Rights Convention: "We Are All Bound Up Together," New York, May 1866
56. Equal Rights Association, Proceedings, New York City, May 1869
57. Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association, New York, 1869
APPENDIXES
A Chronology of the Antislavery and Women’s Rights Movements (1830-1870)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index
Authors
Kathryn Kish Sklar
Kathryn Kish Sklar (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Distinguished Professor of History, Emerita, at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her writing focuses on the history of women’s participation in social movements—in the United States and transnationally. Her books include Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity and Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900, both of which received the Berkshire Prize. Her co-edited works include Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the Protestant American Empire, 1776-1960 and the online resource, The Women and Social Movements Library. She has taught at University of California, Los Angeles and served as Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at the University of Oxford. Her work has been supported by the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Mellon foundations; the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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