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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Cult of Domesticity
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Cult of Domesticity
Text 1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Text 2. Caroline Gilman
Text 3. Catharine E. Beecher
Text 4. Harriet Jacobs
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Text 5. Fanny Fern
Text 6. Godey's Lady's Book
Text 7. Rev. Theodore Parker
Text 8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton


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4.  Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861, Ch. 5-7, 10-11, 14-17

Harriet Jacobs
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Site creator: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library


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Full text also available on one web page from Documenting the American South

Timeline of events, 1808-1861, including events in Jacobs's life; from the University of Virginia

Runaway notice for Harriet Jacobs, 1835, from the PBS site Africans in America






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