Womens 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 womens rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of womens rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimkés campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged womens rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others.