 | Susan G. Bell, Karen M. Offen - 1983 - 588 páginas
...similar circumstances, where death to herself and all her nation is one alternative, and there is nothing worse to fear, but something .to hope as the other...of their place, in attempting to do it themselves. 50. Angelina Grimke (1838) Dear Friend: In my last, I made a sort of running commentary upon thy views... | |
 | Barbara J. MacHaffie - 264 páginas
...similar circumstances, where death to herself and all her nation is one alternative, and there is nothing worse to fear, but something to hope as the other...of their place, in attempting to do it themselves. 48 • THE GATHERING OF WOMEN FOR MISSIONS On October 9, 1800, fourteen Baptist and Congregationalist... | |
 | Linda J. Lumsden - 1997 - 356 páginas
...petitioning was beyond woman's sphere, such as educator Catharine Beecher, who lectured Angelina Grimke: "Men are the proper persons to make appeals to the...the good that can be done by such measures will be secured."29 Woman's Rights Petitions The earliest recorded woman's rights petition was filed by Mary... | |
 | Gerda Lerner - 1998 - 390 páginas
...once wished to be, Catherine Beecher declared herself strongly against women petitioning Congress: ' 'Men are the proper persons to make appeals to the...surely are out of their place in attempting to do it themselves."2 Angelina had decided, early in May, to answer this essay, a decision in which Weld strongly... | |
 | Mason Lowance - 2000 - 390 páginas
...neither appropriate nor wise, nor right, for a woman to petition for the relief of oppressed females. In this country, petitions to congress, in reference...of their place, in attempting to do it themselves . . . We need ten thousand teachers at this moment, and an addition of two thousand every year. Where... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 páginas
...appropriate nor wise, nor right, for a woman to petition for the relief of oppressed females. . . . In this country, petitions to congress, in reference...of their place, in attempting to do it themselves. . . . We need ten thousand teachers at this moment, and an addition of two thousand every year. Where... | |
 | Melissa J. Homestead - 2005 - 294 páginas
...flood of women's petitions to Congress demanding the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia): In this country, petitions to congress, in reference...surely are out of their place, in attempting to do it themselves.4 According to Beecher's philosophy, if Sedgwick had persuaded her nephew as her "nearest... | |
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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... 