ASH3002y Class Notes
April 28, 1999
Women and Reform: Abolition and Woman Suffrage
The Compromise of 1850
- The
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
- Frederick Douglass, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro: Speech at
Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852," The Norton Anthology of American Literature,
5th ed., vol. 1, pp. 2057-2076.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Slavery in Massachusetts," The Norton Anthology of
American Literature, 5th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1943-1953.
- 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)
Women and Abolition
Women suffrage:
- "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)
Women and reform:
Resources for further study:
