Welcome to the SLL, “Voices of Change,” with sources about how 19th century women drove change through political and economic means. The collection is organized into three sections: abolition, women’s suffrage, and labor rights.

The collection includes:

• Abolition
  • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
  • A speech from Sarah Parker Redmond
  • A passage from Lydia Maria Child’s book, “Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery”
  • A passage from Ida B. Wells’ book, “A Red Record”
• Women’s Suffrage
  • The Declaration of Sentiments
  • A speech from Frederick Douglass
  • A speech from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • A photograph of Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill
  • A cartoon from Bernard Partridge
• Labor Rights
  • A passage from Mother Jones’ autobiography
  • A speech from Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Videos about mill workers in Lowell, MA
  • A letter from Black laundry women

Directions:

Choose one of the reform movements we learned about and navigate to that section of the collection.

Choose 1-2 sources from that reform movement. Using your note catcher,

• Contextualize the source
• Corroborate the sources if reviewing 2 sources
• Answer the analysis questions