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Betsy Mix Cowles: Champion of Equality (Lives of American Women)

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Betsy Mix Cowles—a champion of equality whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass, Abby Kelley, and William Lloyd Garrison—is a smart example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism, Cowles also took up the reason for women’s rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women’s access to education, equal rights, and independence in the pre–Civil War era. The life of this devoted social reformer illuminates the struggles and historical developments on the subject of abolitionism and the fledgling women’s movement right through some of the contentious periods in American history.


About the Lives of American Women series:

Selected and edited by renowned women’s historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed to be used in undergraduate courses. Quite than a comprehensive approach, each and every biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman’s life that may be emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a “good read,” featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each and every biography reveal the subject’s perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography fortify the student reader.

 


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