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

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HQ1236.5.U6 P67 2005	Available	---

Description	xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	"Causes of alarm to our whole country": articulating the crisis of Indian removal -- "A right to speak on the subject": petitioning the federal government -- "The difference between cruelty to the slave, and cruelty to the Indian": imagining native and African Americans as objects of advocacy -- "Merely public opinion in legal forms": imagining Native and African Americans in the public and political spheres -- "On the very eve of coming out": declaring one's antislavery affiliations -- "Coming from one who has a right to speak": debating colonization and abolition.
Subject	Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women political activists.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Political participation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Political participation.
	Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women abolitionists.
	Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Antislavery movements.
	Indians of North America -- Relocation.
	Indians of North America -- Relocation.
	Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
	Indians, Treatment of.
	Public opinion.
	Petitions -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Petitions.
ISBN	0674019229
	9780674019225