An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with References to the Duty of Females

An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with References to the Duty of Females

Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature.

Abolitionists.

Slavery.

First edition stamped “Miss Beecher on the Slave Question.” Catharine Beecher was an educational reformer, and the elder sister of novelist and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and half-sister of suffragist Isabella Beecher Hooker. She broke with both her siblings in her response to slavery and women's rights.
This book was her first statement on the subject. In it she urged southern women to publicly commit themselves to ending slavery and advocated women staying "in their appropriate sphere" of home and hearth.

Beecher, Catharine (1800-1878)

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Philadelphia: Henry Perkins. Boston: Perkins & Marvin

1837