Second to None: From the sixteenth century to 1865Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker "Tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice," wrote Anna Julia Cooper, a nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, teacher, and novelist. Argu-ing that the voices of women still need to be heard, the editors of this comprehensive collection have assembled a diverse selection of writings to illustrate the daily lives of ordinary and extraordinary women and the historical significance of their thoughts and deeds. Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences?in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values?are shown to be as important as their commonalities. Volume 1, which comprises 153 selections, opens with a Navajo origin myth and presents Native American, Hispanic, African, and Euro-American women from the sixteenth century through the Civil War. Both volumes include section introductions that set the historical stage and comment on the significance of the selections. |
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... John Smith , 29 Quite Seemly and Respectful by Lamothe Cadillac , 33 Their Carriage It Is Very Civill by William Wood , 35 The Conversation of Their Women by John Lawson , 38 Dressing Deerskin by Sir Robert Southwell , 41 Awashonks ...
... John Winter , 66 The Case of Charity Dallen , 67 The Case of Elizabeth Greene , 68 A Bedroom Story , 70 An Unwed Mother , 70 Wilt thou Not Drinke to Me ? 71 Concerning the Freedom of Elizabeth Key , 73 An Act Concerning Negroes and ...
... John Lawson , 105 Gravestone of Mrs. Margaret Edwards , 106 A Bedlam Bess by Ebenezer Cook , 107 Cruell Usage by John Winthrop III , 108 Of the Servants and Slaves of Virginia by Robert Beverley , 109 A Runaway Servant and a Runaway ...
... Ladies by Abigail Adams and John Adams , 165 Conscious Dignity That Ought Rather to Be Cherish'd by Mercy Otis Warren , 170 Our Republican and Laborious Hands by Esther DeBerdt Reed , 171 I Would Be Happy in Spite of Them by Grace.
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Contents
Making Pottery at Santa Clara Pueblo | 13 |
NORTH AND SOUTH following page 74 | 28 |
Mary Dyer | 28 |
CHANGING IDENTITIES | 28 |
Advice to a Daughter by George Savile Marquis | 28 |
On the Death of a Sister by Sarah Prince and Sarah | 62 |
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS | 76 |
A Journal Second to None by Elisabeth Anthony | 82 |
The Barbarism of the Times by Ann Hulton 163 | 88 |
AFTER THE STORM | 96 |
following page 204 | 96 |
naTIVE AMERICANS | 47 |
Passengers to Massachusetts | 51 |
EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS | |
CIVIL | |