Andrea Moore Kerr

Lucy Stone

Speaking Out for Equality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No study of women's history in the United States is complete without an account of Lucy Stone's role in the nineteenth-century drive for the abolition of slavery and legal and political rights for women. This first fully documented biography of Stone describes her rapid rise to fame and power and her later attempt at an equitable marriage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813518602
• ISBN-10: 0813518601
• Artikelnr.: 21762881

Autorenporträt

ANDREA MOORE KERR is a historian and writer. She is currently at work on a historical novel based on Shay's Rebellion. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. "EXTRA! EXTRA! Lucy Stone Is Dead!"
Chapter Two. "I Am Sorry It Is a Girl. A Woman's Lot Is So Hard"
Chapter Three. "As Light as Thistle Down"
Chapter Four. "This is Not a World to Sit Down and Whimper In"
Chapter Five. "Whether We Like It or Not, Little Woman, God Made You an
Orator"
Chapter Six. "Putting Lucy Stone to Death"
Chapter Seven. "Rock the Cradle Lucy/And Keep the Baby Warm!"
Chapter Eight. Kansas: The Rift Widens
Chapter Nine. "Out of the Terrible Pit"
Chapter Ten. "Every Clean Soul"
Chapter Eleven. "Will the Cause Be Ground to Powder?"
Chapter Twelve. "Another Year for Downright Work"
Chapter Thirteen. "Make the World Better"
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index