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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: "Our Rights as Moral Beings" | |
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| Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society | |
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| Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 | |
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| Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimke Speak in New York, July 1836-May 1837 | |
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| Redefining the Rights of Women: Angelina and Sarah Grimke Speak in Massachusetts, Summer 1837 | |
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| The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Question of Women's Rights, 1837-1840 | |
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| An Independent Women's Rights Movement Is Born, 1840-1858 | |
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| Epilogue: The New Movement Splits Over the Question of Race, 1850-1869 | |
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| The Documents | |
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| Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 | |
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| Life and Letters, 1884 | |
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| Constitution of the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society, 1831 | |
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| Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, 1831 | |
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| Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, 1832 | |
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| Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston, 1833 | |
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| Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and Sarah Grimke Speak in New York, July 1836-May 1837 | |
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| Petition Form for Women, 1834 | |
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| Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, New York, December 17, 1836 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, New York January 20, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, New York, February 4, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Sarah Douglass, Newark, N.J., February 22, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Sarah Douglass, New York City, April 3, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Angelina Grimke, Philadelphia, April 15, 1837 | |
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| An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, 1837 | |
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| Proceedings, New York City, May 9-12, 1837 | |
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| Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females, 1837 | |
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| Redefining the Rights of Women: The Grimke Sisters Speak in Massachusetts, Summer 1837 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, Boston, May 29, 1837 | |
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| "To Female Anti-Slavery Societies throughout New England," Boston, June 7, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, Danvers, Mass., June 1837 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, New Rowley, Mass., July 25, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Amos Phelps, Groton, Mass., August 3, 1837 | |
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| Pastoral Letter: The General Association of Massachusetts to Churches under Their Care, July 1837 | |
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| Lecture by Albert Folsom, Pastor, Universalist Church, Hingham, Mass., August 27, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Jane Smith, Groton, Mass., August 10, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Theodore Weld, Groton, Mass., August 12, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Sarah and Angelina Grimke, August 15, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Angelina and Sarah Grimke, New York City, August 14, 1837 | |
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| Letter to Theodore Dwight Weld and John Greenleaf Whittier, Brookline, Mass., August 20, 1837 | |
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| Resolutions Adopted by the Providence, Rhode Island, Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, October 21, 1837 | |
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| Annual Report, 1837 | |
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| "Human Rights Not Founded on Sex": Letter to Catharine Beecher, August 2, 1837 | |
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| "Legal Disabilities of Women": Letter to Mary Parker, September 6, 1837 | |
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| "Relation of Husband and Wife": Letter to Mary Parker, September 1837 | |
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| The Antislavery Movement Splits Over the Women's Rights Question, 1837-1840 | |
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| Speech at Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, May 16, 1838 | |
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| Letter to The Liberator, New York, May 15, 1840 | |
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| Letter to Anne Warren Weston, Fort Lee, N.J., July 15, 1838 | |
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| Letter to Angelina Grimke, Boston, September 2, 1839 | |
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| Annual Meeting, October 1839 | |
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| An Independent Women's Rights Movement Is Born, 1840-1858 | |
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| On Meeting Lucretia Mott, London, June 1840 | |
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| Letter to Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld, London, June 25, 1840 | |
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| Planning the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 | |
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| Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19-20, 1848 | |
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| Speech at Akron Women's Rights Convention, Ohio, June 1851 | |
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| Address to the "Woman's Rights Convention," Worcester, Mass., October 1850 | |
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| Proceedings of the Colored Convention, Cleveland, September 6, 1848 | |
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| "Woman's Rights," October 1, 1849 | |
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| "Just Treatment of Licentious Men," January 1838 | |
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| Marriage and Parentage, 1858 | |
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| Epilogue: The New Movement Splits Over the Question of Race, 1850-1869 | |
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| The Saturday Visiter, November 2, 1850 | |
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| Letter to Jane Swisshelm, November 18, 1850 | |
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| "Woman's Rights and the Color Question," November 23, 1850 | |
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| Speech at the Eleventh Woman's Rights Convention, New York, May 1866 | |
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| Proceedings, New York City, May 1869 | |
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| Founding of the National Woman Suffrage Association, New York, 1869 | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |