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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Antebellum Women | |
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| Deferential Domestics | |
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| Companionate Co-laborers | |
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| Passionate Partisans | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Primary Documents | |
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| Deferential Domestics | |
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| Susannah Rowson, Excerpts from Charlotte Temple, 1791 | |
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| Martha Ballard's Diary: Two Months in the Life of a Maine Midwife, 1800 | |
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| Eliza Leslie, "The Slaves," a Short Story from The Young Ladies' Mentor, 1803 | |
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| Tapping Reeve, Excerpts from The Law of Baron and Femme, 1816 | |
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| Cherokee Women's Petitions, 1817, 1818, and 1831 | |
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| Lydia Maria Child, Excerpts from The American Frugal Housewife, 1830 | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville, Excerpts from Democracy in America, Volume II, 1840 | |
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| Catharine Beecher, Excerpts from A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841 | |
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| Letters by Amy Galusha, A Lowell Mill Girl, 1849-1851 | |
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| Companionate Co-laborers | |
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| Salem Female Charitable Society Constitution, 1804 | |
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| African Dorcas Association, 1828 | |
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| Female Moral Reform Society Report, 1835 | |
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| Maria Sturges, Address to Christian Females in Slaveholding States, 1836 | |
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| Fathers and Rulers Petition, 1836 | |
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| Controversy over Abolitionist Lectures by the Grimk� Sisters, 1837 | |
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| Mary Lyon's Plans for the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1837 | |
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| Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Jones, "Anti-Slavery Sewing Circles," 1847 | |
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| "World's" Temperance Conventions, 1853 | |
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| "Linda Brent" (Harriet Jacobs), Excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself, 1861 | |
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| Passionate Partisans | |
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| Mary Davis Letter in Support of Abolition and the Liberty Party, 1847 | |
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| Resolutions and Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, 1848 | |
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| Mary Sheldon's Composition Book Entry: "Women and Politics," 1848 | |
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| Jane Swisshelm Attacks the Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Excerpts from Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1851 | |
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| Sojourner Truth's "Aren't I a Woman?" Speech, as Reported in 1851 and 1863 | |
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| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Free Labor, 1854 | |
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| Jessie Fr�mont Song, 1856 | |
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| Lydia Maria Child's Letter to Governor Wise Regarding John Brown, 1859 | |
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| Susan B. Anthony Letter Describing a "Wide Awake" Republican Serenade, 1860 | |
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| Anna Dickinson's Letter in Support of the Reelection of Lincoln, 1864 | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |