Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and more

by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)

Overview

A Dover Original, this collection of essays, letters, poems, and speeches by the bold women who joined the abolitionist movement of the nineteenth century will educate and inspire all who are interested in this era of American history. The collection includes the work of 26 remarkable women whose efforts, at great risk to their own safety, became instrumental in fighting slavery, including Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486848648
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	12/15/2021
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: American History
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Phillis Wheatley: Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774) 1

Elizabeth Heyrick: Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition (1824) 3

Sarah Louisa Forten: The Grave of the Slave (1831) 28

Sarah Louisa Forten: The Slave-Girl's Address to Her Mother (1831) 29

Mary Prince: The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (Excerpts) (1831) 31

Sarah Mapps Douglass: Held in Bondage (June 1832) 49

Maria W. Stewart: Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, Boston (September 21, 1832) 52

Lydia Maria Child: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (Preface and Chapter 1) (1833) 57

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: Letters to Isabel (1836) 85

Angelina E. Grimké: Appeal to Christian Women of the South (1836) 94

Sarah M. Grimké: An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (December 1836) 132

Angelina E. Grimké: Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (May 16, 1838) 144

Abby Kelley: What Is Real Anti-Slavery Work? (1839) 150

Eliza Lee Cabot Follen: Women's Work (1842) 153

Harriet Tubman: Liberty or Death (c. 1845) 156

Lucretia Mott: The Law of Progress (May 9, 1848) 159

William and Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Excerpts) (December 1848) 165

Lucy Stanton: A Plea for the Oppressed (August 27, 1850) 186

Sojourner Truth: Speech ("Ain't I a Woman?") (May 29, 1851) 190

Mary Ann Shadd: Notes of Canada West (Introductory and Concluding Remarks) (1852) 192

Harriet Beecher Stowe: An Appeal to the Women of the Free States of America on the Present Crisis in Our Country (February 23, 1854) 196

Charlotte Forten: Journal of Charlotte Forten: Free Woman of Color (Excerpts) (May-June 1854) 202

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: The Slave Mother (1854) 207

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: The Slave Auction (1854) 209

Maria Weston Chapman: "How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?" or, Counsels to the Newly Converted (1855) 211

Susan C. Cabot: What Have We, As Individuals, to Do with Slavery? (May 9, 1855) 220

Harriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Excerpts) (1859) 227

Lydia Maria Child et al: Correspondence Regarding the Prisoner John Brown (October-December 1859) 241

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech to the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (May 8, 1860) 263

Sarah Parker Remond: The Negroes in the United States of America (January 1, 1862) 270

Susan B. Anthony: Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society (December 4, 1863) 274

Selected Bibliography 277