Helen LaKelly Hunt Collection of American Women Reformers and Writers
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Helen LaKelly Hunt Collection of American Women Reformers and Writers
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The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, Containing Thoroughly Tested and Reliable recipes for Cooking, Directions for the Care of the Sick, and Practical Suggestions.
The Woman Suffrage Cook Book contains recipes by more than 164 different women. Copies of this cookbook were sold to raise funds for the suffrage movement, and put the words of its leaders in the homes of everyday housewives. A carefully curated…
"Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage; a statement of the reasons which justify the demand to extend the suffrage to women, with consideration of the arguments against such enfranchisement, and with special reference to the issue presented to the New York State convention of 1894.
!["Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage; a statement of the reasons which justify the demand to extend the suffrage to women, with consideration of the arguments against such enfranchisement, and with special reference to the issue presented to the New York State convention of 1894.](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/53987/archive/thumbnails/de44fcbb164eac92b9e3036d8e09fe7d.jpg?Expires=1714608000&Signature=Mpjj4XPqKHeCsAqL3m%7EHjbmpSBQHQD4I%7EanWb2dfvmGp2LaHklSUB3wQMAuZhHyX9nboLYWs5wM6a0iXfpnK8bsITqYOUAHzdJN2CY-lrk6XD2%7EzvWbA856mJGURbnz1VEqSSpfL%7ET4lcGq3Xg41qYu15GNyrdYdssEOPlsGQ6XVj1shLm5NEn0mH%7EFYQBzjKJa%7ESj2ArMKRMTwSe8f-UwKwkfokd77GwZend7vcPjyfxL1r7vbq4AyNU9P6AMrDWs7qlr%7EKsHYnns6mqnu32YLjj4DBND9byeydaV1DJ84OMj3mIFh6OE4tWmhuJpNbGwDkvsZCOllnvabnlsvWbQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ""Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage; a statement of the reasons which justify the demand to extend the suffrage to women, with consideration of the arguments against such enfranchisement, and with special reference to the issue presented to the New York State convention of 1894.")
In this text Dr. Jacobi traces the history of the American suffrage movement and offers persuasive arguments for the cause. She notes the inequities of the present social and political state and offers suffrage as the remedy.
Women and Economics. A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman was a feminist, author and lecturer. In this work Gilman drew on history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology and used an evolutionary perspective to explore women's subordinate status in society in the past and…
The Suffragette. The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910. Preface by Mrs. Pankhurst.
Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. The British suffrage movement had "officially" started in 1865 in Manchester. The actions of the WSPU brought the suffrage movement into the public forum. Window smashings,…
Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment. Compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt
In this work Catt has compiled documents related to "why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question" of woman suffrage. She authored four chapters, and Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade…
Jailed for freedom: a first-person account of the militant fight for women's rights
Stevens was an American suffragist, woman's legal rights advocate, and author. She was the first female member of the American Institute of International Law and first chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women. This book covers the campaign of…
The Sorrows of Yamba: Illustrating the Cruelty of the Slave-Trade. Together with Reflections of a Minister in the Day of Declension. Let God be prais'd who overrules, The works of TYRANNY and Fools
First separate American edition of a famous anti-slavery item published both as a broadside and pamphlet, sometimes attributed to Hannah More (1745-1833) who may have derived it from William Cowper's “The Negro's Complaint”.
Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Presented to the First African Baptist Church and Society, of the City of Boston
Maria W. Stewart is considered America's first Black woman journalist and political writer. Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart was compiled in 1834 and published in 1835 after Stewart left Boston. It contains Stewart's speeches and addresses from…
The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, nos. 1-12, Jan. to Dec+ Appendix
First of only three volumes (1835-37) of the annual Anti-Slavery Record. Contains stories and woodcut pictures. Of particular interest is the account of the flogging of Amos Dresser who, as a means of raising funds for his education, sold…
Slavery and the Boston Riot
This is a broadside printing of the letter sent to William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator, from Angelina Grimke shortly after the infamous Proslavery Riot in Boston. Grimke wrote in response to a series of mob riots in Boston, Philadelphia,…