Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870

Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women''s rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women''s rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké''s campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women''s rights movement in the 1840s ...