Womans History Questions

Week Six HIST 474

Topic/Title Citation

Abolition and Women’s Rights: Choose ONE document set from the three below. Read the introduction and 5-8 (depending on length) individual documents, choosing which one to read based on your interest or chance. Use the biographical sketches as needed, but do not rely on them as substitutes for the primary source documents. You may of course read all documents but quality and depth of your understanding are more important than breadth here. Prepare to share what you have learned in the discussion forum with direct reference to the primary sources via quotations.

Document set: Having It All: Lucy Stone, Motherhood, and the Woman's Rights Movement, 1851-1893 By Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Having It All: Lucy Stone, Motherhood, and the Woman's Rights Movement, 1851-1893, written by Bonnie Laughlin Schultz (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2021), 46 page(s),

Document set:

How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery?

How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery? by Sherry H. Penney, fl. 2003 and James D. Livingston, fl. 2003 (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York, Binghamton, 2003, originally published 2003), 68 page(s),

Document set:

How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-18,61?

How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-18,61? by Professor Carol Lasser and Oberlin College Students. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002).

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Lerner, Gerda, 'The Meaning of Seneca Falls', Living with History / Making Social Change (Remember to sign in to your library account first. Then, this link should be accessible to you. If not, use One Search to

Lerner, Gerda, 'The Meaning of Seneca Falls', Living with History / Making Social Change (Chapel Hill, NC, 2009; online edn, North

Week Six HIST 474

search “The Meaning of Seneca Falls” and you will find access to the article.

Carolina Scholarship Online, 24 July 2014), https://doi-org.proxylib.csueastba y.edu/10.5149/9780807887868_l erner.8, accessed 23 Sept. 2024.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Liberty for Slaves Liberty for Slaves

written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911, in National Anti-Slavery Standard, 23 May 1857, p. 3, 2 page(s)

TAMIKA Y. Nunley, “Thrice Condemned: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Practice of Leniency in Antebellum Virginia Courts.” (Click on ‘pdf’ on the left side of the screen. Sign in to the Library first.)

NUNLEY, TAMIKA Y. 2021. “Thrice Condemned: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Practice of Leniency in Antebellum Virginia Courts.” Journal of Southern History 87 (1): 5–34. doi:10.1353/soh.2021.0000.http://pr oxylib.csueastbay.edu/login?url=https://sea rch.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true& db=aph&AN=148408753&site=ehost-live& scope=site

Watch:

Slavery and Freedom—American Passages: A Literary Survey. (The whole video is 27 mins. I suggest you begin watching at time 12:21 on Harriet Jacobs. After Jacobs, white author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe is the subject. The wrap up in the last 2-3 minutes is great!) (And learning a bit more about Federick Douglass is important if you decide to watch the whole thing. He became a great ally of the women’s rights movement.) (Sign in to the CSUEB Library first then click the link)

Slavery and Freedom—American Passages: A Literary Survey. Films On Demand. 2003. Accessed September 28, 2023. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPl aylists.aspx?wID=103871&xtid= 113248.

View at least two sections of this online exhibit: “Hidden Voices: Enslaved Women in the Low Country and US South”

https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibi ts/show/hidden-voices