American Women's History
Subtitle: A Student Companion (Oxford Student Companions to American History)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 24, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780195113174
First sentence: When the antislavery movement, also known as abolitionism, first began to gather steam in the 1830s, it was considered scandalous for women to speak in public-and there was no organized women's movement.