{"product_id":"women-in-american-history-to-1880-isbn-9781444331189","title":"Women in American History to 1880","description":"\u003ci\u003eWomen in American History To 1880\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of over 70 primary source documents that illuminate the diverse experiences of women from America's colonial period through Reconstruction.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures images, poems, newspaper articles, and letters not found in other collections\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a balanced approach to women's experiences by representing a diversity of voices and focusing on themes of work, citizenship, representations, and domestic lives\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes an introductory chapter, document headnotes, questions for further discussion after each chapter, and a bibliography for further study, designed to encourage students to engage with the text\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editors' Preface x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Seekers, 1540–1680 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Luys Hernandez de Biedma on the Destruction of Mavila, 1540 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 \u003ci\u003eA Chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc\u003c\/i\u003e, 1590 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 John Rolfe, Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 \u003ci\u003ePocahontas\u003c\/i\u003e, 1616 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Examination of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Anne Bradstreet, \"A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment,\" 1650 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 John Hammond, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eLeah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitful Sisters Virginia and Mary-land\u003c\/i\u003e, 1656 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Samuel Willard on Elizabeth Knapp, 1671–1672 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Colonists and Colonized, 1660–1730 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Excerpts from the Code Noir, 1685 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Assembly of Virginia, Act XII, 1662 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Father Chrestien Le Clercq on Micmac Women, 1691 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Examination of Tituba, 1692 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Petition of Abigail Faulkner, 1692 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Fray Francisco de Vargas on Taking Indian Captives, 1696 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 John Lawson on Native American Women and Childbirth, 1709 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 An Act Concerning Feme Sole Traders, 1718 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Letters of Sister Mary Magdalene Hachard, 1728 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Conceptions of Liberty, 1730–1780 50\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 John Taylor, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eThe Value of a Child\u003c\/i\u003e, 1753 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 William Smith on the Relations between Indians and Their Captives during Pontiac's War, 1764 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Fugitive Slave Ad for Violet, 1766 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Phillis Wheatley, \"On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,\" 1770 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Edenton Ladies' Agreement, 1774 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 \u003ci\u003eA Society of Patriotic Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, 1775 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Hannah Griffitts, \"Upon Reading a book Entituled [sic] Common Sense,\" 1776 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Revolution, 1780–1810 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Jemima Wilkinson, Excerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe Universal Friend's Advice, to Those of the Same Religious Society\u003c\/i\u003e, 1784 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Indenture of Eunice Allis, 1789 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Judith Sargent Murray, \"On the Equality of the Sexes,\" 1790 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sarah Pierce, Verses, 1792 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Susanna Rowson, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Temple\u003c\/i\u003e, 1794 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Liberty, 1796 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Excerpt from the Will of David Bush, Connecticut Slave Owner, 1797 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Elizabeth Seton, Letters to Archbishop John Carroll, 1809–1810 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman, 1811 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Mary Jemison on her Experiences during the American Revolution, 1824 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 William A. Whitehead on New Jersey's Early Female Voters, 1858 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Awakenings, 1810–1835 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 \u003ci\u003eScenes from a Seminary for Young Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, c.1810–1820 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Frederick Douglass Describes His Mother, 1845 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Catharine Beecher, \"Circular Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States,\" 1829 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Cherokee Women’s Petition against Removal, 1831 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Mrs. Mary Mathews to Mrs. Lydia Finney, 1831 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Maria Stewart, Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, 1832 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, \"On the Use of Free Produce,\" 1832 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Jarena Lee, \"My Call to Preach the Gospel,\" 1836 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Contested Spheres, 1835–1845 104\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Lucy Larcom, Beginning to Work, 1889 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Angelina Grimke, \"An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States,\" 1837 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 L.T.Y., \"Just Treatment of Licentious Men,\" 1838 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Petition Protesting the Gag Rule, 1838 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 S.E.C., \"Mothers and Daughters,\" 1840 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Oregon Missionary Narcissa Whitman, Letter to her Mother, May 2, 1840 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 \"Lives of the Nymphs: Amanda B. Thompson and her Attache,\" 1841 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Catharine Beecher, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eA Treatise on Domestic Economy\u003c\/i\u003e, 1845 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Partisans, 1845–1860 126\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Susan Shelby Magoffin Describes Dona Gertrudis \"La Tules\" Barcelo, 1846 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Lucretia Mott, Letter to Edmund Quincy, 1848 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Imogen Mercein Describes the Five Points Mission, 1852 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Excerpt on Complex Marriage from \u003ci\u003eBible Communism\u003c\/i\u003e, 1853 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Women of the Oneida Community, undated 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Julia Gardiner Tyler, \"To the Duchess of Sutherland and Ladies of England,\" 1853 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Horace Greeley et al., \"Woman and Work,\" 1854 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Clarina Howard Nichols, \"To the Women of the State of New York,\" c.1856 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Illustration of Women's Procession, Lynn, Mass., Shoemakers' Strike, 1860 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Ernestine Rose on Divorce, 1860 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Civil Wars 152\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Louisa May Alcott Treats the Wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1863 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Advertisement for the Great Western Sanitary Fair, 1863 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 John Burnside and Abisha Scofield, Affidavits on the Removal of Black Soldiers' Families from Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Thomas Nast, \u003ci\u003eEmancipation\u003c\/i\u003e, 1865 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Jane Kamper, Milly Johnson, and Rebecca Parsons, Testimony on the Apprenticeship of Their Children, 1864–1867 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Testimony of Rhoda Ann Childs, 1866 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Historical Sketch of the Ladies' Memorial Society of New Bern, North Carolina, 1885 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Redefining Citizenship, 1865–1880 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Jeannette Gilder and Senator Cattell, Correspondence Regarding Job in the US Mint, 1867–1868 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Susan B. Anthony, Remarks to the American Equal Rights Association, 1869 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech on the Acquittal of Daniel McFarland, 1870 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eOur Goddess of Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e, 1870 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Mother [Eliza Daniel] Stewart, Excerpt from \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Crusade\u003c\/i\u003e, 1873 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Speech at the Centennial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1875 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Florence Kelley, Letter to William D. Kelley, 1878 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Pretty Shield Describes the Disappearance of the Buffalo, 1932 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCarol Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and is currently writing a biography of Lucretia Mott. Faulkner has also taught American women’s history at SUNY Geneseo, where she received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  \u003ci\u003eWomen in American History to 1880\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of primary source documents that illuminate the rich diversity of women’s experiences from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Carefully chosen readings reveal the simultaneous processes of constructing gender and national identity, and examine how women viewed colonization, slavery, the American Revolution, industrialization, sectional conflict, and emancipation from very different -- and often clashing -- religious, ethnic, racial, and national perspectives. The readings show not only how politicians, businessmen, and writers utilized abstract images of women as symbols for a variety of causes, but also reveal the ways in which many women articulated their own political perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With images, poems, newspaper articles, and personal letters, many of which are collected here for the first time, \u003ci\u003eWomen in American History to 1880\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the ways women contributed to and challenged the gender roles that emerged with the young nation and helped shape America’s future national identity.  “Carol Faulkner has assembled a vivid patchwork of American voices with an elegant, inclusive design.  Readers will follow three centuries of women's progress and protest, gaining a comprehensive first-hand understanding of the scope of American female experience.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMegan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters:  Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e“Using an impressive range of source material and offering thought-provoking discussion questions, Carol Faulkner’s documentary reader reflects the diversity of women’s experiences and calls attention to the centrality of women in American history.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnya Jabour, editor of Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children and author of Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“By selecting documents that range from the English colonies to French Louisiana and Spanish New Mexico, Carol Faulkner offers readers a fascinating array of early American women's lives:  Indian and African American women; Catholic and Protestant women; plebian, middling, and elite women; and girls as well as adult women.  Her brisk introduction raises provocative questions about women's varied roles in early America, and encourages students to see their experiences as foundational to American history.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnn M. Little, Colorado State University\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990502031589,"sku":"NP9781444331189","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444331189.jpg?v=1761788084","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/women-in-american-history-to-1880-isbn-9781444331189","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}