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Signatures Of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, And Women's Political Identity
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ISBN 9780807863282
REGISTERED: 12/27/17
UPDATED: 10/20/25
Signatures Of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, And Women's Political Identity

In this comprehensive history of women's antislavery petitions addressed to Congress, Susan Zaeske argues that by petitioning, women not only contributed significantly to the movement to abolish slavery but also made important strides toward securing their own rights and transforming their own political identity


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  • Signatures Of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, And Women's Political Identity available on November 22 2016 from VitalSource for Https://www.vitalsource.com/search?term=9780807863282&cjsku=9780807863282" itemprop="offers" target="_external" title="" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">29.99
  • ISBN bar code 9780807863282 ξ1 registered November 22 2016
  • Product category is Book

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By analyzing the language of women's antislavery petitions, speeches calling women to petition, congressional debates, and public reaction to women's petitions from 1831 to 1865, Zaeske reconstructs and interprets debates over the meaning of female citizenship. At the beginning of their political campaign in 1835 women tended to disavow the political nature of their petitioning, but by the 1840s they routinely asserted women's right to make political demands of their representatives. This rhetorical change, from a tone of humility to one of insistence, reflected an ongoing transformation in the political identity of petition signers, as they came to view themselves not as subjects but as citizens. Having encouraged women's involvement in national politics, women's antislavery petitioning created an appetite for further political participation that spurred countless women after the Civil War and during the first decades of the twentieth century to promote causes such as temperance, anti-lynching laws, and woman suffrage.


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    ^ Signatures Of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, And Women's Political Identity VitalSource. (revised Nov 2016)

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