![]() | Their Right to Speak: Women''s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates Subjects: 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; When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from 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 groundbreaking 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 their voices heard. |
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