Second to None: From the sixteenth century to 1865

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Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker
U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1993 - History - 404 pages
"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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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
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naTIVE AMERICANS
47
Passengers to Massachusetts
51
EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS
CIVIL
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Ruth Barnes Moynihan teaches history at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway and coeditor of So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining Frontier (Nebraska 1990). A professor of history at Yale University. Cynthia Russett is the author of Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood. Laurie Crumpacker is an associate professor of history at Simmons College and coeditor of The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754?1757.

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