This indispensable collection is... important for its range of topics - social uplift, geography, education, lynching, sanctification, Indian removal, deafness, and abolition, among others." - Dale M. Bauer, coeditor, The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing "This rich new anthology sets in motion an inter-textual conversation of remarkable vitality that will change the ways we understand gender, class, ethnicity, culture, and nation in nineteenth-century America." - Susanna Egan, author of Mirror-Talk
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