Pre-Civil War Reform

Pre-Civil War Reform
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	An Annotated List of the Most Valuable Online Resources on Pre-Civil War Reform Clicking the links below will open a new window; close that window to return to this page. School: The Story of American Public Education http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/ Not For Ourselves Alone http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/ The companion site to the PBS documentary on the struggle for women’s rights. Apocalyptic Visions in 19^th Century America http://www.public-humanities.org/fallwin99journal.html#anchor1854373 PRE-CIVIL WAR REFORM Antislavery Abolition http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html This Library of Congress exhibit includes antislavery petitions, songs, children’s magazines, and other original sources documenting the struggle to abolish slavery. American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass http://www.cr.nps.gov/csd/exhibits/douglass/overview.htm An online exhibit created by the National Park Service featuring documents and artifacts at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. The Colonization Movement http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html This Library of Congress online exhibit includes primary sources that document the history of the movement to transport free blacks to Africa. Women’s Rights The American Woman of the Early 19^th Century http://www.indianapolis.in.us/cp/womrole.html This site describes the shifting roles and perceptions of women in the decades before the Civil War. History of Woman’s Suffrage http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html This site provides information about the first women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, as well as women’s struggle for the vote. Women and the Law in 19^th Century Indiana http://www.indianapolis.in.us/cp/wlaw.html This site examines women’s legal rights in the areas as divorce, abortion, and crime. Worcester Women’s History Project http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/academic/history/WWHP/hr.html Speeches, letters, and other primary source documents relating to the first national women’s rights convention in Worcester, Mass., in 1850 Back to Top

PRE-CIVIL WAR REFORM