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Women on Equality
| - | "Let Democrats . . . ," poem, Newark Centinel of Freedom, 1797 |
| - | A Lady, The Female Advocate, 1801, excerpts |
| - | Abigail Adams to Judge F.A. Vanderkemp, the "black swan" letter, 3 Feb. 1814 |
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Abigail Adams
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"Let Democrats":
https://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/
origtext.html#centinel
The Female Advocate: PDF file*
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/livingrev/equality/text5/
femadvocate.pdf
Abigail Adams: PDF file*
https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/livingrev/equality/text5/
adamsvanderkemp.pdf
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Online
Sources
| "Let Democrats": Prof. Catherine Lavender, CUNY-College of Staten Island
The Female Advocate: National Humanities Center
Abigail Adams: National Humanities Center
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Printing
| If you choose to print these texts:
- Print directly from the sites.
- Length: ? ("Let Democrats": ? pp., Fem. Advocate: 6 pp.,
A. Adams: 2 pp. PDF file*).
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Supplemental
sites
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"Liberty Rhetoric" and Nineteenth-Century American Women, from CUNY-College of Staten Island
Overview, "The American Woman of the Early Nineteenth Century," from the Connor Prairie Museum, Indiana
Brief biography of Abigail Adams, from the Massachusetts Historical Society
Biography of Abigail Adams, from the Unitarian-Universalist Historical Society
"On the Equality of the Sexes," by Judith Sargent Murray, 1790, from the National Humanities Center - PDF file*, 8 pages
Biography of Judith Sargent Murray, from the Murray Society
Other essays by Judith Sargent Murray, from the Society
Benjamin Rush, "Thoughts upon Female Education," 1787, from the University of Chicago ClassWeb
Jennifer Manion, "The Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia: Attitudes toward the Formal Education of Women in America, 1790-1800," Penn History Review, Spring 1997
Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," 1792 [Britain], from the Constitution Society
Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Women," 1791 [France], from CUNY-College of Staten Island
Illustration, "Keep within Compass," ca. 1785-1805, from CUNY-College of Staten Island
Hannah Foster, The Coquette, 1797 [novel]
The Diary of Martha Ballard (diary: 1785-1812), from DoHistory.org, Harvard University
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