Fighting Chance

Faye E. Dudden is Professor of History at Colgate University. Her previous books include Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America and Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870, which won the George Freedley Memorial Prize.

• Introduction ; 1. The Age is Ripe for the Woman Question ; 2. Black Rights, Woman's Rights, and Civil War ; 3. The "Negro's Hour" ; 4. The Struggle for Equal Rights ; 5. Kansas ; 6. Revolutionary Journalism and Political Opportunism ; 7. The Fight Over the Fifteenth Amendment ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index

Rich in archival material, set against a backdrop of lively debate concerning the meanings of citizenship, rights, and freedoms during Reconstruction, with a notable cast of characters, Duddenâs work is a particularly valuable contribution to the history of the struggle for equal rights in nineteenth-century America and that of womenâs rights more generally.