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Photograph

[1908-1920]

Dixon, Joseph K., 1856-1926

Scene beside a river with two Native American women gathering berries

Inscribed "875" in pencil on verso.

GLC03911.08.03
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Autograph letter signed

1838/04/09

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

to J. H. Couston re: efforts to allow women to work

GLC06707
Collection Item
Book

1882

Hanson, E.R., fl. 1882

Our woman workers. Biographical sketches of women... in the Universalist Church.

Title continued: "for literacy, philanthropic and Christian work." Inscribed by Mary Livermore to her daughters. Among those profiled: Clara Barton, Alice and Phoebe Cary, M. Louise Thomas, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Frances Dana Gage. (Title is...

GLC06858
History Now Essay

“Rachel Weeping for Her Children”: Black Women and the Abolition of Slavery

Margaret Washington

Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

During the period leading up to the Civil War, black women all over the North comprised a stalwart but now largely forgotten abolitionist army. In myriad ways, these race-conscious women worked to bring immediate emancipation to the...
Appears in:
5 | Abolition Fall 2005
57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

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