{"product_id":"their-right-to-speak-alisse-portnoy-9780674019225","title":"Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she found the first instance of women's national, collective political activism in American history. In this groundbreaking study, Portnoy links antebellum Indian removal debates with crucial, simultaneous debates about African Americans--abolition of slavery and African colonization--revealing ways European American women negotiated prohibitions to make their voices heard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSituating the debates within contemporary, competing ideas about race, religion, and nation, Portnoy examines the means by which women argued for a \"right to speak\" on national policy. Women's participation in the debates was constrained not only by gender but also by how these women--and the men with whom they lived and worshipped--imagined Native and African Americans as the objects of their advocacy and by what they believed were the most benevolent ways to aid the oppressed groups. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCogently argued and engagingly written, this is the first study to fully integrate women's, Native American, and African American rights debates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alisse Portnoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674019229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674019225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.34w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2006 pg. 2062","brand":"Alisse Portnoy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054243475711,"sku":"9780674019225","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_042bcfe2-6b5b-41c4-9375-1d21e151be24.jpg?v=1685028841","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/their-right-to-speak-alisse-portnoy-9780674019225","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}