PART 1 A NEW WORLD: THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES1 1 First Encounters3 NARRAGANSETT WOMEN, Roger Williams, 16435 WOMEN''S LIVES AMONG THE DELAWARE, John Heckewelder, 1819 9 IROQUOIS WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT, Pierre de Charlevoix, 172112 A NEW ENGLAND CAPTIVITY, Mary Rowlandson, 168114 LIFE AMONG THE SENECA, Mary Jemison, 182420 THE FIRST SHIP, A Chinook Tale22 2 Well-Ordered Families25 HUSBANDS AND WIVES, Benjamin Wadsworth, 171227 EVANGELICAL CHILD-REARING, Susanna Wesley, 173229 TO IMPROVE IN EVERY VIRTUE, Eliza Pinckney, 1750s33 TIED HAND AND FOOT, Esther Burr, 1756-175735 AN ABOMINABLE WICKEDNESS, Abigail Bailey, 181541 A DECREE ON SEDUCTION, New Spain, 175245 3 The Colonial Economy47 GROWING CORN/GRINDING CORN, Cherokee and Zuni Tales 50 LAWS ON SLAVE DESCENT, Virginia and Maryland, 1662-1692 53 SKILLED SLAVES IN MARYLAND, The Maryland Gazette, 1748-176355 AN INDENTURED SERVANT''S COMPLAINT, Elizabeth Sprigs, 175657 APPRENTICESHIP IN PENNSYLVANIA, List of Indentures, 1771-177359 ADVENTURE SCHOOLS, Advertisements, 1750s-1770s61 A MAINE MIDWIFE, Martha Ballard, 178564 4Women and the Law70 AN ANTENUPTIAL CONTRACT, Massachusetts, 165372 DIVORCE IN NEW ENGLAND, Connecticut, 1655-167874 A SEPARATION DECISION, Maryland, 168076 A FEME SOLE TRADER ACT, South Carolina, 174478 MALEFACTORS AND COMPLAINANTS, Massachusetts, 1675-1680 79 WIDOWS, WILLS, AND DOWER RIGHTS, Virginia, 1642, and New York, 1721-175983 WOMEN''S ESTATES, Massachusetts, 1664, and New York, 1747-175987 ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ELIZABETH MORSE, Massachusetts, 1679-168090 5Religious Experiences97 THE GHOST WIFE, (Pawnee Tale)99 A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Anne Bradstreet, ca. 1670 101 ANNE HUTCHINSON''S TRIAL, Massachusetts Bay, 1637 105 AN EPISTLE TO QUAKER WOMEN, Lancashire Women''s Meeting, 1675113 NARRATIVE OF OLD ELIZABETH, A Former Slave Recalls Her Religious Conversion of the 1770s115 "JEWISHNESS IS PUSHED ASIDE HERE", Rebecca Alexander Samuel, 1790s118 6 The Revolutionary Era120 AN ADDRESS TO GEORGE III, Phillis Wheatley, 1768123 A CAROLINA PATRIOT, Eliza Wilkinson, 1782124 A LOYALIST WIFE, Grace Galloway, 1778-1779126 DESCRIPTION OF MOLLY BRANT, MOHAWK AND LOYALIST, Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin, c. 1780129 REMEMBER THE LADIES, Abigail Adams, 1776130 THOUGHTS UPON FEMALE EDUCATION, Benjamin Rush, 1787133 EXCELLENCY IN OUR SEX, Judith Sargent Murray, 1790137 FROM CHARLOTTE TEMPLE, Susanna Haswell Rowson, 1791140 Suggestions for Further Reading141 PART 2 THE YOUNG NATION, 1800-1860145 7 The Middle Class: Domestic Lives147 MATRIMONIAL RISKS, Emma Willard, 1815149 THE DEFERENTIAL WIFE, Caroline Gilman, 1838151 SYSTEM AND ORDER, Catharine Beecher, 1841153 FIRST TO NONE, Catharine M. Sedgwick, 1828156 THE WIDOWED STATE, Sarah Connell Ayer, 1832-1833158 8 The School and the Mill166 RULES OF THE SCHOOL, Eliza Ann Mulford, 1814168 A RATIONALE FOR FEMALE EDUCATION, Emma Willard, 1819 170 A CHOCTAW MISSION SCHOOL, Miss Burnham''s Report, 1824 173 REPORTS ON WESTERN SCHOOLS, Letters from Teachers, 1847 176 RULES OF THE MILL, Lowell and Lancaster, 1820-1840180 A LETTER FROM LOWELL, Harriet Farley, 1844183 A SPIRIT OF PROTEST, The Voice of Industry, 1846187 9 Western Frontiers191 A SPANISH MISSION IN CALIFORNIA, Eulalia Perez on the 1820s193 A NORWEGIAN IMMIGRANT IN WISCONSIN, Jannicke Saehle, 1847197 A MORMON CONVERT CROSSES THE PLAINS, Jean Rio Baker, 1851200 A WOMAN''S VIEW OF THE GOLD RUSH, Mary B. Ballou, 1852 205 CHEROKEE WOMEN RESIST REMOVAL, Petitions of the Women''s Councils, 1817, 1818209 LIFE AMONG THE PIUTES, Sarah Winnemucca, 1883211 A WOMAN KILLS HER DAUGHTER, A Sioux Tale215 10 Mistress and Slave219 AN ALABAMA DIARY,Sarah Haynesworth Gayle, 1828, 1833 221 THE CRUEL MISTRESS, Angelina Grimké Weld, 1839224 MRS. CHESNUT''S COMPLAINT,Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1861227 A GEORGIA PLANTATION,Fanny Kemble, 1838-1839230 AN ATMOSPHERE OF LICENTIOUSNESS AND FEAR,Harriet A. Jacobs, 1861233 ROSE WILLIAMS''S STORY, Federal Writers'' Project Interviews, 1941236 11 The Reform Impulse240 SEDUCED AND ABANDONED,The Advocate of Moral Reform, 1838 242 THE WATER CURE, Mary S. Gove, 1846245 O, YE DAUGHTERS OF AFRICA, AWAKE!,Maria W.
Stewart, 1831 248 A LETTER TO THE LIBERATOR, Andover Female Antislavery Society, 1836249 REPLY TO THE MASSACHUSETTS CLERGY, Sarah Grimké, 1837251 DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 253 LUCY STONE''S MARRIAGE PROTEST, Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone, 1855257 SOJOURNER TRUTH SPEAKS, 1851259 Suggestions for Further Reading261 PART 3 THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1860-1900265 12 Civil War and Reconstruction267 A UNION NURSE, Louisa May Alcott, 1863269 NORTHERN WOMEN ON FARMS,Mary A. Livermore, 1890273 A WARTIME MISTRESS, Louticia Jackson, 1863275 CONFRONTING DEFEAT, Eva B. Jones, 1865277 MOMENTS OF EMANCIPATION,Accounts of Former Slaves, 1865 and After281 TEACHING THE FREEDMEN,Sarah Chase and Lucy Chase, 1866-1868290 VISITS FROM THE KLAN,Harriet Hernandes Testifies, 1871294 "DEY WENT OUT LAUGHIN'' FIT TO KILL",Anna Parkes on the 1870s296 A FORMER SLAVE REMEMBERS THE WAR Susie King Taylor, 1902297 13 Urban Wage Earners300 NEW YORK PROSTITUTES, William Sanger, 1858302CONTRACT BETWEEN MEE YUNG AND YUT KUM,San Francisco, 1874307 OBJECTIONS TO DOMESTIC SERVICE,Lucy Maynard Salmon, 1897308 BLACK SERVANTS IN PHILADELPHIA, Isabel Eaton, 1899311 THE OFFICE CLERK, Clara Lanza, 1891313 A LABOR ORGANIZER, Leonora Barry, 1888316 14 College Women319 MISS D. AND MISS E., Edward H. Clarke, 1873321 SEX IN EDUCATION ATTACKED,Julia Ward Howe et al., 1874324 A DEBATE OVER COEDUCATION,Olive Anderson, 1878328 A COLLEGE ROMANCE, M.
Carey Thomas, 1877332AN AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE AT OBERLIN,Mary Church Terrell on the 1880s335 THE MARRIAGE QUESTION,Milicent Washburn Shinn, 1895339 15 Clubs, Causes, and Reform342 A TEMPERANCE TALE, Mary Clement Leavitt, 1888344 THE WOMAN''S CLUB, Cleveland Sorosis, 1893346 THE BLACK CLUB MOVEMENT,Fannie Barrier Williams, ca. 1900348 AN INDIAN TEACHER AMONG INDIANS, Zitkala- S¨ a, 1900350 EARLY DAYS AT HULL-HOUSE, Jane Addams, 1892353 SOCIALISM DEFENDED, Florence Kelley, 1887357 A WHITE WOMAN''S FALSEHOOD, Ida B. Wells, 1894359 16 Woman Suffrage/Women''s Rights363 THE JOYS OF ACTIVISM, Julia Ward Howe, 1899365 POLITICAL LESSONS, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony on the 1860s368 WE ARE ALL BOUND UP TOGETHER,Frances Ellen Harper, 1866370 SUSAN B. ANTHONY ON TRIAL (1873)373 WORKING WOMEN DEBATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE,The Shoemakers of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1874375 LOSING THE WEST, The South Dakota Campaign of 1890378 AN "ANTI" SPEAKS OUT, Amelia Barr, 1896380 17 New Women/ New Century383 THE ILLS OF THE HOME, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903384 CITY HOUSEKEEPING, Jane Addams, 1906387 A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH, Anna J. Cooper, 1892388 "THIS IS THE SOUTH''S IDEA OF JUSTICE",An Alabama Woman, 1902390 IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND THEIR JOBS,Caroline Manning on the Early 1900s392 A SWEATSHOP GIRL''S STORY, Sadie Frowne, 1902394 Suggestions for Further Reading400.