Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
ISBN-13:
9780807827598
ISBN-10:
0807827592
Edition:
New edition
Author:
Susan Zaeske
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Hardcover
272 pages
Category:
Civil War
,
Women in History
,
World History
,
Social Sciences
,
Women's Studies
,
United States History
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780807827598
ISBN-10:
0807827592
Edition:
New edition
Author:
Susan Zaeske
Publication date:
2003
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Hardcover
272 pages
Category:
Civil War
,
Women in History
,
World History
,
Social Sciences
,
Women's Studies
,
United States History
,
Americas History
Summary
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity (ISBN-13: 9780807827598 and ISBN-10: 0807827592), written by authors
Susan Zaeske, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2003.
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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. 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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