Title Their right to speak : women's activism in the Indian and slave debates / Alisse Portnoy

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) Contents "Causes of alarm to our whole country": articulating the crisis of Indian removal -- "A right to speak on the subject": petitioning the federal government -- "The difference between cruelty to the slave, and cruelty to the Indian": imagining native and African Americans as objects of advocacy -- "Merely public opinion in legal forms": imagining Native and African Americans in the public and political spheres -- "On the very eve of coming out": declaring one's antislavery affiliations -- "Coming from one who has a right to speak": debating colonization and abolition Summary "When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions form the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she found the first instance of women's national, collective political activism in American history. In this study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about African Americans - abolition of slavery and African colonization - revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make thier voices heard." "Situating the debates within contemporary, competing ideas about race, religion, and nation, Portnoy examines the means by which women argued for a "right to speak" on national policy. Women's participation in the debates was constrained not only by gender but also by how these women - and the men with whom they lived and worshipped - imagined Native and African Americans as the objects of their advocacy and by what they believed were the most benevolent ways to aid the oppressed groups. This is the first study to fully integrate women's, Native American, and African American rights debates."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 19th century Political participation -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Relocation. Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century Petitions -- United States -- History -- 19th century Indians -- Relocation -- United States -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Antislavery movements Indians of North America -- Relocation Indians, Treatment of -- Public opinion Petitions Political participation Women abolitionists Women political activists Deportation Abolitionismus Politische Beteiligung Frauenbewegung Frau Vrouwen. Activisme. Slavernij. Indianen. Kvinnliga politiker -- Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1800-talet. Politiskt deltagande -- Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1800-talet. Kvinnliga abolitionister -- Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1800-talet. Antislaverirörelser -- Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1800-talet. Indianer -- Nordamerika -- tvångsförflyttningar. United States USA Verenigde Staten. Indianer. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674042223 0674042220

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