Root of Bitterness

Presenting a diverse collection of documents, Root of Bitterness reaches from the colonial era through the nineteenth century, focusing on six dominant themes: women's work, the power of gender, the physical body, women's collective efforts, diversity and conflict among women, and women's relation to state authority. This edition contains about twenty selections from the original volume and almost sixty new ones.

Acknowledgments

xi

(2)

Introduction

xiii

I. COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND COMMUNITIES

3

(46)

Examination of Anne Hutchinson

3

(8)

Church Trial and Excommunication of Ann Hibbens

11

(6)

Ordinary Dealings at Colonial County Courts

17

(7)

Case of Sarah Taylor, Indentured Servant

24

(5)

Statutes on Slave Descent

29

(3)

Susanna Martin, on Trial for Witchcraft

32

(4)

Carolina Women Observed

36

(6)

A Rape on the Body of Anne Eastworthy

42

(2)

A Law for Regulating Midwives

44

(5)

II. TRANSITIONS TO A NEW REPUBLIC

49

(64)

Sarah Osborn's Religious Conversion

49

(5)

Query to the Philadelphia Baptist Association

54

(2)

Sarah Harlan's Will

56

(3)

Letter from an Indentured Servant

59

(2)

Diary of Mary Cooper

61

(6)

Moll Placket-Hole

67

(4)

Abigail Adams's Letters from the Home Front

71

(6)

An Adolescent's Wartime Diary

77

(6)

Learning by Doing Women's Work

83

(8)

A Father's Advice to His Daughter

91

(7)

Eliza Southgate Reflects on the Sexes

98

(5)

Petition on Behalf of Fanny, a Slave Woman

103

(2)

Women's Work in the Market Economy

105

(8)

III. WOMAN'S SPHERE AND WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENTS

113

(64)

Maria Stewart Sees Chains on the Soul

113

(5)

Striking Tailoresses Speak

118

(5)

Sarah Grimke on the Condition of Women in the United States

123

(5)

The Legal Rights and Wrongs of Women

128

(4)

The Peculiar Responsibilities, and Difficulties, of American Women

132

(6)

"Sweethearts and Wives": A Story from Godey's Lady's Book

138

(10)

A Parlor Ballad

148

(4)

Margaret McCarthy Writes Home

152

(4)

Petition for a Ten-Hour Workday

156

(5)

Domestic Management in the Letters of Martha Coffin Wright

161

(6)

A New York Woman on a North Carolina Plantation

167

(10)

IV. WOMEN AND THE NATIONAL MISSION

177

(62)

Cherokee Women Address Their Nation

177

(2)

Missionary to Indian Territory

179

(6)

Eulalia Perez in Mexican California

185

(8)

Reaching Oregon

193

(5)

A Moral Reformer Makes Her Rounds

198

(6)

An Afternoon Call

204

(4)

A Daughter of Temperance Exhorts Her Sex

208

(5)

Planting Catholic Schools in North America

213

(5)

Since We Came to America

218

(6)

Iron Teeth (Mah-i-Ti-Wo-Nee-Ni) Remembers the Cheyenne Removal

224

(6)

The Great Indignation Meeting

230

(9)

V. SLAVERY, WAR, AND EMANCIPATION

239

(54)

James Curry's Mother

239

(4)

Virginia Ladies' Petition to Eliminate Slavery

243

(3)

An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, by Angelina Grimke

246

(6)

Narratives of Escaped Slaves

252

(6)

Sarah Parker Remond on American Slavery

258

(2)

A Slave Writes to Her Former Mistress

260

(2)

Louisa McCord on Enfranchisement of Woman

262

(6)

Union Women in Wartime

268

(6)

Gertrude Clanton Thomas's Civil War Diary

274

(7)

A Freedwoman before the Southern Claims Commission

281

(5)

The Race Problem--An Autobiography

286

(7)

VI. HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND SEXUALITY

293

(54)

On Female Health in America

293

(5)

Lucy Thurston's Surgical Operation

298

(5)

The Murders of Marriage, by Mary Gove Nichols

303

(6)

Testimony as to the Insanity of Elizabeth Packard

309

(6)

Abortion in New York

315

(6)

A Fox Woman Comes of Age

321

(4)

The Working Girls of Boston

325

(5)

Sex in Education, by Dr. Edward H. Clarke

330

(4)

Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi on Female Invalidism

334

(4)

Effeminate Men, Masculine Women

338

(3)

The Story of Aunt Easter

341

(6)

VII. WOMEN'S WORK IN AN INDUSTRIAL AGE

347

(52)

Have Been Busy All Day

347

(6)

The Sweating System, Charity, and Organization

353

(6)

Speak-out on Domestic Service

359

(5)

A Domestic Problem

364

(3)

Condition of Women in Rural Alabama

367

(5)

Leonora Barry Reports to the Knights of Labor

372

(5)

Rescued Chinese Prostitutes Testify at the Industrial Commission

377

(7)

Jane Addams on Idle Daughters and Working Mothers

384

(7)

Women's Evolution from Economic Dependence

391

(8)

VIII. NEW WOMEN, NEW WORLDS

399

Frances Willard Heralds "The Dawn of Woman's Day"

399

(7)

Mary Church Terrell Greets the National Congress of Mothers

406

(3)

Catholics Debate the Woman Question

409

(5)

Mary Lease, Prophet of the Farmers' Alliance

414

(6)

To the President, in the Negro's Behalf

420

(3)

An Indian Teacher among Indians

423

(3)

The Story of a Sweatshop Girl

426

(7)

The Typewriter Girl

433

(3)

Murray Hall Fooled Many Shrewd Men

436

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