ASH3002y Reading Assignment
April 28, 1999

Women and Reform: Abolition and Woman Suffrage

We'll move smoothly from our discussion of political configurations, slavery, and abolition into a discussion of women and reform.

Required reading:

• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapters 7 and 9 (Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1648-1669) and Chapter 45 "Concluding Remarks" (in Uncle Tom's Cabin on reserve or on line)
• "Declaration of Sentiments" (1848) and Appendix, "New York: Seneca Falls and Rochester Conventions" in History of Woman Suffrage, ed. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, vol. 1, 70-73 and 802-810 (Reserve)--Some of this material is available in Report of the Woman's Rights Convention Held at SENECA FALLS, N.Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848 ( this site includes the Declaration of Sentiments)
• Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman?"
• Rachel Davidson, "THE SPLIT IN THE 19TH CENTURY WOMAN SUFFRAGE
  MOVEMENT," Concord Review (Winter, 1988)

Please review as well the first chapter of Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy.

Further (optional) reading on other reform movements:

• Temperance:
  • The Whole world's temperance convention, held at Metropolitan hall in the city of New
    York ... Sept. 1st and 2d, 1853 ...

Resources for further study:

• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 [Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar]
• Votes for Women:   Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Collection