Their right to speak : women's activism in the Indian and slave debates /

Their right to speak : women's activism in the Indian and slave debates /

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"When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions form the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she found the first instance of women's national, collective political activism in American history. In this study...

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Main Author: Portnoy, Alisse, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Women political activists > United States > History > 19th century.
Political participation > United States > History > 19th century.
Women abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Relocation.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Petitions > United States > History > 19th century.
Indians > Relocation > United States > History > 19th century.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • "Causes of alarm to our whole country": articulating the crisis of Indian removal
  • "A right to speak on the subject": petitioning the federal government
  • "The difference between cruelty to the slave, and cruelty to the Indian": imagining native and African Americans as objects of advocacy
  • "Merely public opinion in legal forms": imagining Native and African Americans in the public and political spheres
  • "On the very eve of coming out": declaring one's antislavery affiliations
  • "Coming from one who has a right to speak": debating colonization and abolition.

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