Week Six HIST 474

Topic/Title Citation

Abolition and Women’s Rights: Choose ONE document set from the three below. Read the introduction and 5-8 (depending on length) individual documents, choosing which one to read based on your interest or chance. Use the biographical sketches as needed, but do not rely on them as substitutes for the primary source documents. You may of course read all documents but quality and depth of your understanding are more important than breadth here. Prepare to share what you have learned in the discussion forum with direct reference to the primary sources via quotations.

Document set: Having It All: Lucy Stone, Motherhood, and the Woman's Rights Movement, 1851-1893 By Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz

Having It All: Lucy Stone, Motherhood, and the Woman's Rights Movement, 1851-1893, written by Bonnie Laughlin Schultz (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2021), 46 page(s),

Document set:

How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery?

How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery? by Sherry H. Penney, fl. 2003 and James D. Livingston, fl. 2003 (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York, Binghamton, 2003, originally published 2003), 68 page(s),

Document set:

How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-18,61?

How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-18,61? by Professor Carol Lasser and Oberlin College Students. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002).

Read all

Lerner, Gerda, 'The Meaning of Seneca Falls', Living with History / Making Social Change (Remember to sign in to your library account first. Then, this link should be accessible to you. If not, use One Search to

Lerner, Gerda, 'The Meaning of Seneca Falls', Living with History / Making Social Change (Chapel Hill, NC, 2009; online edn, North

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search “The Meaning of Seneca Falls” and you will find access to the article.

Carolina Scholarship Online, 24 July 2014), https://doi-org.proxylib.csueastba y.edu/10.5149/9780807887868_l erner.8, accessed 23 Sept. 2024.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Liberty for Slaves Liberty for Slaves

written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911, in National Anti-Slavery Standard, 23 May 1857, p. 3, 2 page(s)

TAMIKA Y. Nunley, “Thrice Condemned: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Practice of Leniency in Antebellum Virginia Courts.” (Click on ‘pdf’ on the left side of the screen. Sign in to the Library first.)

NUNLEY, TAMIKA Y. 2021. “Thrice Condemned: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Practice of Leniency in Antebellum Virginia Courts.” Journal of Southern History 87 (1): 5–34. doi:10.1353/soh.2021.0000.http://pr oxylib.csueastbay.edu/login?url=https://sea rch.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true& db=aph&AN=148408753&site=ehost-live& scope=site

Watch:

Slavery and Freedom—American Passages: A Literary Survey. (The whole video is 27 mins. I suggest you begin watching at time 12:21 on Harriet Jacobs. After Jacobs, white author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe is the subject. The wrap up in the last 2-3 minutes is great!) (And learning a bit more about Federick Douglass is important if you decide to watch the whole thing. He became a great ally of the women’s rights movement.) (Sign in to the CSUEB Library first then click the link)

Slavery and Freedom—American Passages: A Literary Survey. Films On Demand. 2003. Accessed September 28, 2023. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPl aylists.aspx?wID=103871&xtid= 113248.

View at least two sections of this online exhibit: “Hidden Voices: Enslaved Women in the Low Country and US South”

https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibi ts/show/hidden-voices

Week Five Readings HIST 474

Topic/Title Citation

Ware, AWH: AVSI, Ch 2, pp. 30-35 Susan Ware, American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction,. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) https://search-ebscohost-com.proxyli b.csueastbay.edu/login.aspx?direct=t rue&db=e091sww&AN=921074&site =ehost-live&scope=site. (start by signing in to the Library website)

Overview: This article From Time/Zocalo Public Square, presents brief essays on diverse groups of women in the West. Women and the Myth of the American West

Zocalo Public Square, multiple authors, “Women and the Myth of the American West,” Time, January 11th, 2015. https://time.com/3662361/wo men-american-west/. Accessed September 21, 2023.

Not all women’s westward movement was voluntary. The Cherokee experienced forced removal. Please read the following brief accounts in Women and the Trail of Tears - THE REMEDIAL HERSTORY PROJECT

Please navigate to third tab, “primary sources,” then click on these three sources at a minimum. (They start four sources down)!

● WAHNENAUHI: RECOLLECTION OF THE TRAIL OF TEARS

● RACHEL DODGE: RECOLLECTION OF THE TRAIL OF TEARS

● MARY HILL: THE MIGRATION TO THE WEST OF THE MUSKOGEE (this loaded slowly for me but it did load)

And American Indian Stories, Chapters 1-4.

Zitkala-Sa [aka Gertrude Simmons Bonnin], American Indian Stories (1876-1938). Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921.https://digital.library.upe nn.edu/women/zitkala-sa/stori es/stories.html. Accessed

.Sep 21, 2023

Enslavement is not often considered part of the story of the West. African-Americans’ history in the West is overlooked. Harriet Robinson Scott’s story highlights African-American women in US history and the history of the American West. “A Law Scholar Discovers Mrs Dred Scott” https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-law-scholar-discovers-mrs- dred-scott/

Paulette Walker Campbell, “A Law Scholar Discovers Mrs. Dred Scott.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 45, no. 16 (1998): A14–.

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By the way, a reparations bill was defeated in the California State Legislature this year. Legislators will reintroduce it. It’s not specific to gender/women’s history. But I wonder if the gendered experiences of enslavement for women have been considered.

https://www-chronicle-com.pr oxylib.csueastbay.edu/article/ a-law-scholar-discovers-mrs-d red-scott/. Accessed September 20, 202.4

Watch: The Gold Rush:

Watch: 5 minutes of “Speck of the Future” from minutes 43:10-48:19. (Segments: Prostitution, Rare and Enterprising Women) Signing in to the library first may help access.

Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er; memories recalled years later for her daughter Correnah Wilson Wright. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services//service/gdc/calbk/089.pdf, pp 3-13 ( stop reading at end of chapt. 3)

Speck of the Future : the West, a Film by Stephen Ives. New York, N.Y: Films Media Group, 1996. Accessed September 21, 2023. Luzena Stanley Wilson, “Luzena Stanley Wilson, '49er; memories recalled years later for her daughter,” Library of Congress. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-se rvices//service/gdc/calbk/089 .pdf. Accessed September 21, 2023.

Frontier Teachers:

“Usually the Teacher Has Nothing to say…: Frontier Education and the One Room SchoolHouse”

(Think back to earlier reading and discussions about the role of educated women as teachers in a new nation.)

Christopher Czjaca, “Usually the Teacher Has Nothing to say…: Frontier Education and the One Room School House” Homestead History, Frontier House https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/f rontierhouse/frontierlife/essay 10.html .Sep 21, 2023

Women in the American West

Prepared for History 474 Fall 2023

Jessica Weiss

I.Myths of the Gender and the West A. A Male History B. A White/Native American History C. Specific Female Roles 1. Women’s Frailty 2. Moral Influence D. Domestic, homemaking roles & chores

Question: Do you have examples from television series, movies, or books that project or undermine these stereotypes and myths?

Pikes Island

II.Native American Women

A. Disruption and Resilience 1. A Dakota Woman and Minnesota Territory (Pelagie Fairbuilt) 2. Indian Wars a. Settler Incursions/Land Grabs and warfare b. “Peace policies” with Christian MIssionaries moving to reservations c. Gender Role and kinship changes

Discussion:

Based on the Cherokee women’s accounts how would you characterize the disruption during the Trail of Tears

Based on: Zitkala Sa’s account of her childhood. What can you learn from her story about Native American Women’s roles and experiences as Native American life changed in the South Dakota?

III Mexican Women and Westward Colonization

A. La Tules B. Property Laws and Legal Traditions

III. Anglo and African American Women

A. Scope and Timing B. Who Emigrated? C. The Journey D. Life for Homesteading Women

I know if you was here you would not think so I have just as good neighbors as I ever had any where and they are very sociable I was never in a neighborhood where all was as near on equality as they are here Those that have been here have a little the most they all have cows and that is quite a help here I get milk & butter from Mrs Furgison who lives 1/4 of a mile from us get the milk for nothing and pay twelve cents a pound for butter she makes good butter

A little ways from the door is a small pond that has watter the year round we use out of it for all purposes but drinking and cooking We have the drinking water cary about 1/4 of a mile and the best of water We have two neighbors only 1/4 of a mile from us

I must stop and get supper

Supper is over and dishes washed I wish I had a cow or two to milk I would feel quite proud then think will get one after harvest Uriah is going up near Crete to harvest The wheat

Letter from Mattie Oblinger

IV Rights and Freedom

A. Divorce B. Slavery and Abolition

Slavery and Abolition and Rights

Julia Louisa Lovejoy

Discuss: West as a Paradox for Women, Gender, & Rights

1. What were some opportunities offered by Westward Migration 2. What new elements of the ‘Westward Ho’ experience did this mini lecture and

the readings add to your ‘knowledge base.’