Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity

Authors

Beverly Wilson Palmer

ISBN

807854263

Price

$19.95

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Abstract

Exercising their Rights

Study reveals women's roles in reform

In her study of women's petitioning in the antebellum period, Susan Zske quotes Samuel Johnson: "This petitioning is a new mode of distressing government, and a mighty easy one." Indeed, Zske effectively portrays the ....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.6.1.21

Recommended Citation

Palmer, Beverly Wilson (2004) "Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.6.1.21
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol6/iss1/21