Their Right to Speak - Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates : Women's Activism In The Indian And Slave Debates

Acknowledgments ix A Note on Terminology xiii Introduction 1(15) 1 "Causes of Alarm to Our Whole Country": Articulating the Crisis of Indian Removal 16(36) 2 "A Right to Speak on the Subject": Petitioning the Federal Government 52(35) 3 "The Difference between Cruelty to the Slave, and Cruelty to the Indian": Imagining Native and African Americans as Objects of Advocacy 87(27) 4 "Merely Public Opinion in Legal Forms": Imagining Native and African Americans in the Public and Political Spheres 114(46) 5 "On the Very Eve of Coming Out": Declaring One's Antislavery Affiliations 160(43) 6 "Coming from One Who Has a Right to Speak": Debating Colonization and Abolition 203(42) Notes 245(36) Index 281