Female Abolitionists

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:	9780486850245
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	12/15/2021
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: American History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

Phillis Wheatley: Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774)
Elizabeth Heyrick: Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition (1824)
Sarah Louisa Forten: The Grave of the Slave (1831)
Sarah Louisa Forten: The Slave-Girl’s Address to Her Mother (1831) 
Mary Prince: The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (Excerpts) (1831) 
Sarah Mapps Douglass: Held in Bondage (June 1832) 
Maria W. Stewart: Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, Boston (September 21, 1832) 
Lydia Maria Child: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (Preface and Chapter 1) (1833) 
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: Letters to Isabel (1836) 
Angelina E. Grimké: Appeal to Christian Women of the South (1836) 
Sarah M. Grimké: An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States (December 1836) 
Angelina E. Grimké: Speech at Pennsylvania Hall (May 16, 1838) 
Abby Kelley: What Is Real Anti-Slavery Work? (1839) 
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen: Women’s Work (1842)
Harriet Tubman: Liberty or Death (c. 1845) 
Lucretia Mott: The Law of Progress (May 9, 1848)
William and Ellen Craft: Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Excerpts) (December 1848) 
Lucy Stanton: A Plea for the Oppressed (August 27, 1850)
Sojourner Truth: Speech (“Ain’t I a Woman?”) (May 29, 1851)
Mary Ann Shadd: Notes of Canada West (Introductory and Concluding Remarks) (1852) 
Harriet Beecher Stowe: An Appeal to the Women of the Free States of America on the Present Crisis in Our Country (February 23, 1854) 
Charlotte Forten: Journal of Charlotte Forten: Free Woman of Color (Excerpts) (May–June 1854) 
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: The Slave Mother (1854) 
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: The Slave Auction (1854)
Maria Weston Chapman: “How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?” or, Counsels to the Newly Converted (1855) 
Susan C. Cabot: What Have We, As Individuals, to Do with Slavery? (May 9, 1855) 
Harriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Excerpts) (1859)
Lydia Maria Child et al.: Correspondence Regarding the Prisoner John Brown (October–December 1859)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech to the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society (May 8, 1860) 
Sarah Parker Remond: The Negroes in the United States of America (January 1, 1862)
Susan B. Anthony: Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society (December 4, 1863) 
Selected Bibliography