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I. Finding a Voice (Mike, Katie, Monica)

· Maria Stewart, “Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality” (1831), Document #3, pp. 79-80 and

· Maria Stewart, “Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston,” (1833), Document #5, pp. 82-83

II. Claiming a Right to Act (Robbie, Tessa, Emily)

· Angelina Grimke, “An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States (1837), Document #14, pp. 100-103

III. Redefining the Rights of Women (Jen, Anthony, Polly)

· Angelina Grimke, “Letter to Theodore Dwight Weld and John Greenleaf Whittier,” August 20, 1837, Document #28, pp. 130-134

IV. The Antislavery Movement Splits (Jyo, Kristen)

· Henry Clarke Wright, “Letter to The Liberator,” May 15, 1840, Document #35, pp. 157-159

· Lydia Maria Child, “Letter to Angelina Grimke,” September 2, 1839, Document #37, pp. 161-163

V. An Independent Woman’s Rights Movement is Born (Ann, Alexis)

· Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19-2, 1848, Document #42, pp. 172-179

VI. Epilogue: The New Movement Splits Over Questions of Race (Julie, Anna)

· Equal Rights Association Proceedings, May 1869, Document #53, pp. 200-203