women in rhetoric

first women to speak to a mixed race (was black). many people, including abolitionists, opposed her speaking. referred to the bible for right to speak. nationalist appeals.

originally did abolition work, but also addressed sexism. criticized for this. wrote Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (first major women's rights publication in US). addresses her brother-in-law who asked the Grimke sisters to stop speaking on women's rights

first women in US to address a legislative body, mass. state legislature. about the right to petition gov. on slavery. used ethos in implicating northerners in slavery. Appeal to the Christian Women of the Southern States. "Address at Pennsylvania Hall"

Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Might have influenced Senecca Falls Convention. Most famous woman at her time. Poet, writer, journalist. Multilingual. held "conversations" for women. editor of The Dial with Emerson. New York Tribune book review editor and correspondent. tries to write in a feminist rhetoric