An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism: With Reference to the Duty of American FemalesH. Perkins, 1837 - 152 páginas Although Beecher takes issue with the call for women's active involvement in the abolition movement, her discussion reveals the inter-relationship between 19th century abolitionism and 19th century feminism. |
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... exerting your influence to form Abolition Societies among ladies of the non - slave - holding States . Our acquaintance and friendship give me a claim to your private ear ; but there are reasons why it seems more desirable to ad- dress ...
... exerting your influence to form Abolition Societies among ladies of the non - slave - holding States . Our acquaintance and friendship give me a claim to your private ear ; but there are reasons why it seems more desirable to ad- dress ...
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... exerting their physical power ? The Southampton insurrec- tion occurred with far less chance of sympathy and success . If that most horrible of all scourges , a ser- vile war , breaks forth , will the slaughter of fathers , sons ...
... exerting their physical power ? The Southampton insurrec- tion occurred with far less chance of sympathy and success . If that most horrible of all scourges , a ser- vile war , breaks forth , will the slaughter of fathers , sons ...
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... exerted . 1 It is the grand feature of the Divine economy , that there should be different sta- tions of superiority and subordination , and it is impossible to annihilate this beneficent and immutable law . On its first entrance into ...
... exerted . 1 It is the grand feature of the Divine economy , that there should be different sta- tions of superiority and subordination , and it is impossible to annihilate this beneficent and immutable law . On its first entrance into ...
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... exert coercive influences , throws her out of her appropriate sphere . If these general principles are correct , they are entirely opposed to the plan of arraying females in any Abolition movement : be- cause it enlists them in an ...
... exert coercive influences , throws her out of her appropriate sphere . If these general principles are correct , they are entirely opposed to the plan of arraying females in any Abolition movement : be- cause it enlists them in an ...
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... will be , that America will be distinguished above all other nations , for well- educated females , and for the influence they will exert on the general interests of society . But if females , as they approach the other sex 106.
... will be , that America will be distinguished above all other nations , for well- educated females , and for the influence they will exert on the general interests of society . But if females , as they approach the other sex 106.
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Página 63 - I sat down disconsolate on the turf by the road-side, and held my horse. Here a thought came into my mind, that if the contents of the Essay were true, it was time some person should see these calamities to their end. Agitated in this manner, I reached home. This was in the summer of 1785. " ' In the course of the autumn of the same year I experienced similar impressions. I walked frequently into the woods, that I might think on the subject in solitude, and find relief to my mind there. But there...
Página 61 - I had expected pleasure from the invention of the arguments, from the arrangement of them, from the putting of them together, and from the thought in .,the interim that I was engaged in an innocent contest for literary honor.
Página 104 - In this country, petitions to congress, in reference to the official duties of legislators, seem, IN ALL CASES, to fall entirely without the sphere of female duty. Men are the proper persons to make appeals to the rulers whom they appoint, and if their female friends, by arguments and persuasions, can induce them to petition, all the good that can be done by such measures will be secured. But if females cannot influence their nearest friends, to urge forward a public measure in this way, they surely...
Página 70 - In this position they remained during the daylight ; but at night they went up to it armed, and seized all the inhabitants, who had not time to make their escape. They obtained forty-five persons in this manner. In the second, they were out eight or nine days, when they made a similar attempt, and with nearly similar success. They seized men, women, and children, as they could find them in the huts. They then bound their arms, and drove them before them to the canoes.
Página 62 - I became at times very seriously affected while'upon the road. I stopped my horse occasionally, and dismounted, and walked. I frequently tried to persuade myself in these intervals that the contents of my Essay could not be true. The more, however, I reflected upon them, or rather upon the authorities on which they were founded, the more I gave them credit.
Página 99 - A man may act on society by the collision of intellect, in public debate ; he may urge his measures by a sense of shame, by fear and by personal interest ; he may coerce by the combination of public sentiment ; he may drive by physical force, and he does not outstep the boundaries of his sphere.
Página 100 - Woman is to win every thing by peace and love; by making herself so much respected, esteemed and loved, that to yield to her opinions and to gratify her wishes, will be the free-will offering of the heart.
Página 61 - But all my pleasure was damped by the facts which were now continually before me. It was but one gloomy subject from morning to night. In the daytime I was uneasy. In the night I had little rest. I sometimes never closed my eyelids for grief.
Página 62 - It was but one gloomy subject from morning to night. In the day-time I was uneasy. In the night I had little rest. I sometimes never closed my eye-lids for grief. It became now not so much a trial for academical reputation, as for the production of a work, which might be useful to injured Africa.
Página 64 - ... and importance; — and with whom was I to unite? I believed also, that it looked so much like one of the feigned labours of Hercules, that my understanding would be suspected if I proposed it. On ruminating, however, on the subject, I found one thing at least practicable, and that this also was in my power. I could translate my Latin dissertation. I could enlarge it usefully. I could see how the public received it, or how far they were likely to favour any serious measures, which should have...