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How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?

by Professor Carol Lasser and Oberlin College Students. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002)

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How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?, by Professor Carol Lasser and Oberlin College Students. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002).

•Introduction

•Document List

•Document 1: Maria Deforest Rudd, "Mrs Rudd's Address to the Female Colchester Society," circa 1811

•Document 2: Mary Mahan to Theodore Dwight Weld, 21 February 1836

•Document 3: Sally Rudd to Caroline Mary Rudd, 26 March 1836

•Document 4: Hannah Maria Warner to Andrew Warner Jr., 15 March 1841

•Document 5A: Mary Sheldon, "Dueling," 31 May 1842

•Document 5B: Mary Sheldon, "Tight Lacing," 7 June 1842

•Document 5C: Mary Sheldon, "Women and Politics," 26 September 1848

•Document 6A: 1840 Annual Report of the Oberlin Female Moral Reform Society

•Document 6B: 1855 Annual Report of the Oberlin Female Moral Reform Society

•Document 7: Mary Sheldon, "Our Duty to the Oppressed," 28 May 1850

•Document 8: By-Laws of the Young Ladies Literary Society, 1859-1863

•Document 9A: Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mrs. Cowles, 4 August 1852

•Document 9B: Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mary Edmondson, 2 October 1852

•Document 9C: Emily Edmondson to Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, 3 June 1853

•Document 10: Records of the Proceedings of the Ladies Board, 21 July 1851

•Document 11A: Lucy Woodcock to Harry E. Woodcock, 20 December 1859

•Document 11B: Lucy Woodcock to Harry E. Woodcock, 30 December 1862

•Document 11C: Lucy Woodcock to Harry E. Woodcock, 28 November 1863

•Document 12A: Marianne Parker Dascomb to Reverend George Whipple, 19 September 1865

•Document 12B: Louisa L. Alexander to Reverend George Whipple, 5 October 1865

•Document 12C: Reverend Francis L. Cardozo to Samuel Hunt, 1865

•Document 13A: Mary Jane Churchill to Brother and Sister, 27 January 1850

•Document 13B: Emily Pillsbury Burke to Board of Trustees of Oberlin College, 1850

•Document 14: Mary Raley Photograph, c. 1858

•Document 15: Frances Hazen, "Young Women," 1859

•Document 16: "Joint Education," Oberlin Evangelist 1861

•Document 17: "Commencement Exercises," Oberlin Evangelist 1861

•Bibliography

•Project Credits

•Related Links

•Contributors

•Mary Louisa and Sarah Cowles, 1848