Beverly Wilson Palmer Holly Byers Ochoa Carol Faulkner
This landmark volume makes widely available for the first time the correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Coffin Mott. Scrupulously reproduced and annotated, these letters illustrate the length and breadth of her public life as a leading reformer while providing an intimate glimpse of her family life. Dedicated to reform of almost every kind-temperance, peace, equal rights, woman suffrage, nonresistance, and the abolition of slavery-Mott viewed woman's rights as only one element of a broad-based reform agenda for American society. A founder and leader of many antislavery...
This landmark volume makes widely available for the first time the correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Coffin Mott. Scrupulously reproduced...
Women's Radical Reconstruction The Freedmen's Aid Movement Carol Faulkner "Important for its contribution to redefining women's activism."--Choice "A pioneering account of the work for and by freedmen."--Journal of American History "Faulkner's fascinating and important book focuses on the role of Northern black and white women in the freedmen's aid movement from roughly 1861 to 1877. She brilliantly captures a moment in U.S. history when these working relationships were possible."--Journal of Southern History "Women's Radical Reconstruction will appeal to...
Women's Radical Reconstruction The Freedmen's Aid Movement Carol Faulkner "Important for its contribution to redefining women's activism."--Choice<...
Women in American History To 1880 presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women from America's colonial period through Reconstruction.
Features images, poems, newspaper articles, and letters not found in other collections
Offers a balanced approach to women's experiences by representing a diversity of voices and focusing on themes of work, citizenship, representations, and domestic lives
Includes an introductory chapter, document headnotes, questions for further discussion after each chapter, and a...
Women in American History To 1880 presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women fr...
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual equality. History has often depicted her as a gentle Quaker lady and a mother figure, but her outspoken challenges to authority riled ministers, journalists, politicians, urban mobs, and her fellow Quakers.
In the first biography of Mott in a generation, historian Carol Faulkner reveals...
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like Willi...
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial and gender identity is constructed from individuals' lived experiences in specific historical contexts, such as westward expansion, civil rights movements, or economic depression as well as by national and transnational debates over marriage, citizenship and sexual mores. All of these essays consider...
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race ...
Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women's rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reformers in America history. Drawing on widely scattered archives, newspaper accounts, and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks unearths the essential speeches and remarks from Mott's remarkable career. The editors have chosen selections representing important themes and events in her public life. Extensive annotations provide vibrant context and show Mott's engagement with allies and opponents. The result is an authoritative resource, one that...
Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women's rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reform...
