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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821097803321

Autore

Portnoy Alisse <1969->

Titolo

Their right to speak : women's activism in the Indian and slave debates / / Alisse Portnoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-04222-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Classificazione

NP 6020

Disciplina

305.43/3268/0973

Soggetti

Women political activists - United States - History - 19th century

Political participation - United States - History - 19th century

Women abolitionists - United States - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Indians of North America - Relocation

Indians, Treatment of - United States - Public opinion - History - 19th century

Petitions - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1 "Causes of Alarm to Our Whole Country" -- 2 "A Right to Speak on the Subject" -- 3 "The Difference between Cruelty to the Slave, and Cruelty to the Indian" -- 4 "Merely Public Opinion in Legal Forms" -- 5 "On the Very Eve of Coming Out" -- 6 "Coming from One Who Has a Right to Speak" -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about African Americans--abolition of slavery and African colonization--revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make their voices heard. Situating the debates within contemporary, competing ideas about race, religion, and nation, Portnoy examines the means by which women argued for a "right to speak" on national policy.