Overview :This is a soul-stirring era," remarked the Reverend William Mitchell in 1835, "and will be so recorded in the annals of time." Countless ant... Read More
Overview :On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--si... Read More
Overview :Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric--especially in the antebellum years--p... Read More
Overview :In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl... Read More