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Antebellum Reform: Writings

Read some of your reformer's original writings from which you infer the beliefs and values that shaped their ideas. These will be primary sources.

In Our Collection

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist As Thinker by Ellen Carol DuBois (Editor); Richard Cándida Smith (Editor)
Call Number: EBook Central
ISBN: 9780814785270
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Ann D. Gordon
Call Number: EBook Central
ISBN: 9780813564401
Publication Date: 2009-06-10
Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation by Ralph F. Young
Call Number: 973 D
ISBN: 9780205605415
Publication Date: 2009-06-30

"The Woman's Bible."
Elizabeth, Cady Stanton. Free Inquiry, Fall, 1999, 57-58.
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ProQuest Research

"Miss Dix's Visit to California."
New York Times (1857-1922), Jun 09, 1869.
Dorothea Dix Letters to George Barrell Emerson and Other Writings
MS Ch.M.3.2 pt.1. Boston Public Library.
Letter from Dorothea Dix to Mary, 29 March 1865
Massachusetts Historical Society
"I tell what I have seen"--the reports of asylum reformer Dorothea Dix.
Dix D. 1843. Am J Public Health. 2006 Apr;96(4):622-5.

Milestone Documents in American History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped America by The Schlager Group
Call Number: Ref 973 M v.2
ISBN: 9780979775802
Publication Date: 2008-07-30
Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
Call Number: 320.082 B
ISBN: 9780486848648
Publication Date: 2021-12-15

"Garrison's Philosophy."
The Chicago Defender (Big Weekend Edition) (1905-1966), Nov 16, 1912.
The Liberator
Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription Center

The Life And Gospel Experience of Mother Ann Lee ...
Blinn, Henry Clay, 1824-1905. Canterbury, N.H.: Pub. by the Shakers, 1883.

Excerpt from "Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education"
"Mann, Horace." In Primary Sources, edited by Carol Brennan, Kathleen J. Edgar, Judy Galens, and Roger Matuz, 1-9. Vol. 4 of American Social Reform Movements Reference Library. Detroit, MI: UXL, 2007. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed November 16, 2023).
Slavery: Letters and Speeches by Horace Mann
Project Gutenberg

History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
Project Gutenberg
The Oneida Community Collection in the Syracuse University Library
HathiTrust

A New View of Society & Other Writings.
Owen, Robert. United Kingdom: J. M. Dent, 1927.

The Book of Mormon
Project Gutenberg
Works by Joseph Smith
Project Gutenberg

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth; Olive Gilbert (Editor)
Call Number: EBook Central
ISBN: 9781504048217
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
Call Number: 320.082 B
ISBN: 9780486848648
Publication Date: 2021-12-15

Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles by David Walker
Call Number: 326.0973 W
ISBN: 9780807869475
Publication Date: 2011-09-01

Walker's Appeal
Project Gutenberg
Freedom's Journal online archive
Wisconsin Historical Society

Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters by George Fitzhugh; C. Vann Woodward (Editor)
Call Number: EBook Central
ISBN: 9780674036925
Publication Date: 2009-07-01

Sociology for the South, or, The Failure of a Free Society
Documenting the American South

The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States by Charles Colcock Jones
Call Number: 268.0973 J
ISBN: 9798623763761
Publication Date: 2020-03-11

Female Abolitionists: Phillis Wheatley, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Others by Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
Call Number: 320.082 B
ISBN: 9780486848648
Publication Date: 2021-12-15

"What If I Am a Woman? (1833, by Maria W. Stewart)."
Shafer, Leah R. In Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., edited by Stanley I. Kutler, 331-332. Vol. 9. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed November 16, 2023).

An oration, delivered in Charlestown, (Mass.), on the fourth of July, 1812, in commemoration of American independence
HathiTrust
Essays on the Present Crisis of the American Indians
Evarts, Jeremiah. United States: Perkins & Marvin, 1829.

Report of the arguments of counsel, in the case of Prudence Crandall, plff. in error, vs. state of Connecticut, before the Supreme court of errors, at their session at Brooklyn, July term, 1834 / by a member of the bar
HathiTrust
“LETTERS OF PRUDENCE CRANDALL PHILLEO TO GEORGE HARRIS RICHARDSON.”
Philleo, P. C., and Elk Falls. Negro History Bulletin 13, no. 1 (1949): 15–15.

Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading by Christina Zwarg
Call Number: 818.3 Z
ISBN: 0801428726
Publication Date: 1995-02-16
Margaret Fuller, Critic by Judith Mattson Bean (Editor); Joel Myerson (Editor)
Call Number: EBook Central
ISBN: 9780231528719
Publication Date: 2000-09-26

Works by Margaret Fuller
Project Gutenberg

Databases to Search

ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides access to an archive of five American newspapers: The Chicago Defender, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles TImes, and The New York TImes.
Salem Press Reference Shelf This link opens in a new window
Includes Defining Documents, The Decades in America, Milestone Documents in American History, Opinions Throughout History, Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, and more.
U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new window
Presents reference information and topic guides in U.S. History, along with related news, magazine, and scholarly journal articles.

Other Online Sources

Documenting the American South
"Primary resources for the study of Southern literature, history, and culture" from UNC Libraries
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust provides free access to digitized works for scholarly and research purposes in compliance with copyright law
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Fordham University
Library of Congress
National Archives
Project Gutenberg
Digitized versions in multiple formats of works in the public domain
Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement
Primary source set from the Digital Public Library of America

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