Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Name: Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780813347714

ISBN-10: 0813347718

ISBN-13: 9780813347714

Edition: 2014

Authors: Stacey M. Robertson

List price: $24.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Rent eBooks

180 day rental: $15.93 Expiration date: 10/20/2024

365 day rental: $18.82 Expiration date: 4/23/2025

Marketplace

2 new & used from $4.65

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Betsy Mix Cowles—a bold reformer whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass, Abby Kelley, and William Lloyd Garrison—is a brilliant example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism, Cowles also took up the cause of women’s rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women’s access to education, equal rights, and independence in the pre-Civil War era. The life of this devoted social reformer illuminates the struggles and historical developments relating to abolitionism and the fledgling women’s movement during one of the most contentious periods in American history. About the Lives of American Women series:Selected and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Pious Pioneering: The Roots of Reform, 1810-1827



Growing Pains: Teaching and Single Life, 1827-1834



The Beginning of Antislavery Commitment, 1834-1837



Oberlin College and the Power of Education, 1837-1840



The Maturation and Merging of Teaching and Antislavery, 1840-1850



Women's Rights and Career Achievements, 1850-1860



The Civil War, Blindness, and Postwar Reform, 1860-1872


Primary Sources


Study Questions


Notes


Annotated Bibliography


Index