Women in American History to 1880

Carol Faulkner is an Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. She is the author of Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (2003) and is currently writing a biography of Lucretia Mott. Faulkner has also taught American women’s history at SUNY Geneseo, where she received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

• List of Illustrations ixSeries Editors' Preface xSource Acknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Chapter 1: Seekers, 1540–1680 151 Luys Hernandez de Biedma on the Destruction of Mavila, 1540 152 A Chieff Ladye of Pomeiooc, 1590 173 John Rolfe, Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, 1614 184 Pocahontas, 1616 215 Examination of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 236 Anne Bradstreet, "A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment," 1650 267 John Hammond, Excerpt from Leah and Rachel, or, The Two Fruitful Sisters Virginia and Mary-land, 1656 278 Samuel Willard on Elizabeth Knapp, 1671–1672 29Chapter 2: Colonists and Colonized, 1660–1730 351 Excerpts from the Code Noir, 1685 352 Assembly of Virginia, Act XII, 1662 363 Father Chrestien Le Clercq on Micmac Women, 1691 374 Examination of Tituba, 1692 385 Petition of Abigail Faulkner, 1692 416 Fray Francisco de Vargas on Taking Indian Captives, 1696 427 John Lawson on Native American Women and Childbirth, 1709 438 An Act Concerning Feme Sole Traders, 1718 459 Letters of Sister Mary Magdalene Hachard, 1728 47Chapter 3: Conceptions of Liberty, 1730–1780 501 John Taylor, Excerpt from The Value of a Child, 1753 502 William Smith on the Relations between Indians and Their Captives during Pontiac's War, 1764 533 Fugitive Slave Ad for Violet, 1766 544 Phillis Wheatley, "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield," 1770 555 Edenton Ladies' Agreement, 1774 586 A Society of Patriotic Ladies, 1775 597 Hannah Griffitts, "Upon Reading a book Entituled [sic] Common Sense," 1776 60Chapter 4: Revolution, 1780–1810 631 Jemima Wilkinson, Excerpts from The Universal Friend's Advice, to Those of the Same Religious Society, 1784 632 Indenture of Eunice Allis, 1789 653 Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 664 Sarah Pierce, Verses, 1792 705 Susanna Rowson, Excerpt from Charlotte Temple, 1794 726 Liberty, 1796 737 Excerpt from the Will of David Bush, Connecticut Slave Owner, 1797 758 Elizabeth Seton, Letters to Archbishop John Carroll, 1809–1810 769 Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman, 1811 7910 Mary Jemison on her Experiences during the American Revolution, 1824 8111 William A. Whitehead on New Jersey's Early Female Voters, 1858 82Chapter 5: Awakenings, 1810–1835 851 Scenes from a Seminary for Young Ladies, c.1810–1820 852 Frederick Douglass Describes His Mother, 1845 853 Catharine Beecher, "Circular Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the U. States," 1829 884 Cherokee Women’s Petition against Removal, 1831 925 Mrs. Mary Mathews to Mrs. Lydia Finney, 1831 936 Maria Stewart, Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall, 1832 967 Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, "On the Use of Free Produce," 1832 998 Jarena Lee, "My Call to Preach the Gospel," 1836 100Chapter 6: Contested Spheres, 1835–1845 1041 Lucy Larcom, Beginning to Work, 1889 1042 Angelina Grimke, "An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States," 1837 1073 L.T.Y., "Just Treatment of Licentious Men," 1838 1114 Petition Protesting the Gag Rule, 1838 1125 S.E.C., "Mothers and Daughters," 1840 1146 Oregon Missionary Narcissa Whitman, Letter to her Mother, May 2, 1840 1177 "Lives of the Nymphs: Amanda B. Thompson and her Attache," 1841 1208 Catharine Beecher, Excerpt from A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1845 122Chapter 7: Partisans, 1845–1860 1261 Susan Shelby Magoffin Describes Dona Gertrudis "La Tules" Barcelo, 1846 1262 Lucretia Mott, Letter to Edmund Quincy, 1848 1283 Imogen Mercein Describes the Five Points Mission, 1852 1304 Excerpt on Complex Marriage from Bible Communism, 1853 1325 Women of the Oneida Community, undated 1376 Julia Gardiner Tyler, "To the Duchess of Sutherland and Ladies of England," 1853 1397 Horace Greeley et al., "Woman and Work," 1854 1428 Clarina Howard Nichols, "To the Women of the State of New York," c.1856 1459 Illustration of Women's Procession, Lynn, Mass., Shoemakers' Strike, 1860 14710 Ernestine Rose on Divorce, 1860 148Chapter 8: Civil Wars 1521 Louisa May Alcott Treats the Wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg, 1863 1522 Advertisement for the Great Western Sanitary Fair, 1863 1543 John Burnside and Abisha Scofield, Affidavits on the Removal of Black Soldiers' Families from Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864 1554 Thomas Nast, Emancipation, 1865 1585 Jane Kamper, Milly Johnson, and Rebecca Parsons, Testimony on the Apprenticeship of Their Children, 1864–1867 1606 Testimony of Rhoda Ann Childs, 1866 1617 Historical Sketch of the Ladies' Memorial Society of New Bern, North Carolina, 1885 163Chapter 9: Redefining Citizenship, 1865–1880 1661 Jeannette Gilder and Senator Cattell, Correspondence Regarding Job in the US Mint, 1867–1868 1662 Susan B. Anthony, Remarks to the American Equal Rights Association, 1869 1673 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech on the Acquittal of Daniel McFarland, 1870 1704 Our Goddess of Liberty, 1870 1745 Mother [Eliza Daniel] Stewart, Excerpt from Memories of the Crusade, 1873 1766 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Speech at the Centennial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1875 1797 Florence Kelley, Letter to William D. Kelley, 1878 1818 Pretty Shield Describes the Disappearance of the Buffalo, 1932 183Further Reading 186Index 190