Category: Women and Gender
Slate Reviews “Little Women,” Says It Is Best Movie Version Ever
Little Women will not be in the theaters until Christmas, but the reviews are starting to appear and they are generally quite good. While there…
“Dear Harriet…Your Friend Frederick Douglass” A Letter to Harriet Tubman 1868
In 1868, friends of Harriet Tubman raised money to aid the former slave in keeping her home in Auburn, N.Y. Frederick Douglass, who lived in…
Book Review: They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers published by Yale University Press (2019) 320 pages. $30.00…
CBS Sunday Morning Visits the Slavery and Reconstruction Sites of Harriet Tubman
CBS Sunday Morning has a nice travel piece visiting the sites of Harriet Tubman’s life in slavery in Maryland and freedom in Auburn, N.Y. CBS…
NY Times Looks at Why “Little Women,” the Bestseller of the Reconstruction Era, Will Come to the Movie Screen This Christmas
The best-selling American novel of the Reconstruction Era, Little Women, will be coming to the Big Screen for Christmas. The New York Times has an…
The Woman Who Published “The Reconstructionist” Was a Firebrand and an Arson Target
I recently read the new book The Impeachers and I came across a newspaper that I never heard of before, The Reconstructionist. Here is what…
Frederick Douglass Tells Women’s Convention that Republicans Should Not Drop “Manhood Suffrage” Nov. 1868
On November 19, 1868 Frederick Douglass addressed the New England Women’s Rights Convention in Boston. Douglass had attended the the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in…
Georgia Supreme Court: Marriage Between People of Different Races “Is Always Productive of Deplorable Results” 1869
Anti-miscegenation laws sought to criminalize marriage and sexual relations between whites and African Americans. While white men had forced enslaved women to have sex with…
NY Times Looks Back at Reconstruction Era “Troll” & Anti-Sex Crusader Anthony Comstock
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on Civil War veteran Anthony Comstock‘s post-war career as a national scold. While I was raised on…
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie
Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie (2012) $26.95 Hardcover, $16.96 Paper, $3.99 Kindle. I…
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