ASH3002y Class Notes
May 3, 1999

Abraham Lincoln and the House Divided

Field trip preview:

• The Pioneer.
• meet Sunday, May 9 at 10:30 sharp.
• Subway information and map

Leftovers from discussion of women and reform

• Abolition and suffrage
  • closing thoughts on Stowe
    • look at closing paragraphs of novel
    • colonization problem
  • Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman?"
• Other reform movements
• Assigned materials:
  • 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)
  • Catharine Beecher's Treatise on Domestic Economy.
• Additional resources:
  • The Whole world's temperance convention, held at Metropolitan hall in the city of New
    York ... Sept. 1st and 2d, 1853 ...
  • 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

Abraham Lincoln and the House Divided:

• Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided:  Speech Delivered at Springfield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858"; "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863"; "Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865"; in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed., vol. 1, pp.  1580-1589.
• The Valley of the Shadow:   Two Communities in the American Civil War:
  • Walking tours of the pre-war years and the Civil War years can help to orient you to this rich site.  See especially the sections on Lincoln's election, the beginning of the war, and the Civil War images collection.
  • October 3, 1860:  The Valley Spirit, Page 2, col. 3: Abraham! Abraham!! Come and Put This Child to Bed (Satirical poem about Lincoln)
  • Gettysburg images

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