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Reconstructing American Womanhood: War and Change in Women’s Lives

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: March 29, 2021  Leave a Comment on Reconstructing American Womanhood: War and Change in Women’s Lives

We sometimes mistakenly associate the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras with the “Ideals of Victorian Womanhood,” as though all women sought to nestle inside of…

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Frederick Douglass Tells Women’s Convention that Republicans Should Not Drop “Manhood Suffrage” Nov. 1868

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: October 20, 2019  Leave a Comment on 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…

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