"The Patriot Blood of Our Fathers Runs Through Our Veins!": Revolutionary Heritage Rhetoric and the American Woman's Rights Movement, 1848-1890

abstract: In speeches, declarations, journals, and convention proceedings, mid-nineteenth-century American woman's rights activists exhorted one another to action as equal heirs of the rights and burdens associated with independence and chided men for failing to live up to the founders' id...

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Other Authors: Lewis Butterfield, Emily (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.37034