Many women supporters of women's rights directed their political activism into the abolitionist movement. Speaking out publicly against injustice, publishing and editing newspapers, and helping slaves ...

Susannah Rowson, excerpts from Charlotte Temple, 1791 -- Martha Ballard's diary : two months in the life of a Maine midwife, 1800 -- Eliza Leslie, "The slaves," a short story from The young ladies' ...

"Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework -- primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States -- made by individual women aged 40 and over between 1820 and 1860, ...

When many people think of slavery during the Colonial or Antebellum periods, romanticized scenes from the film “Gone with the Wind” often come to mind — vast Southern plantations, elaborate gowns, and ...