How Did Oberlin Women Students
Draw on Their College Experience to
Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?
Document List
in Oberlin College and Colony
Document
1: Maria Deforest Rudd,
"Mrs. Rudd's Address to the Female Colchester Society," circa 1811
Document 2: Mary Mahan to Theodore Dwight Weld, 21
February 1836
Document 3: Sally Rudd to Caroline Mary Rudd, 26 March
1836
Document 4: Hannah Maria Warner to Andrew Warner Jr.,
15 March 1841
Document 5A: Mary Sheldon, "Dueling," 31
May 1842 Document
5B: Mary Sheldon,"Tight
Lacing," 7 June 1842
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5C: Mary Sheldon,"Women and Politics," 26 September 1848
Women and Their Organizations in Antebellum Oberlin
Document 6A: 1840 Annual Report of the Oberlin Female
Moral Reform Society
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6B: 1855 Annual Report of the Oberlin Female Moral Reform Society
Document 7: Mary Sheldon, "Our Duty to the Oppressed,"
28 May 1850
Document 8: By-Laws of The Young Ladies Literary Society,
1859 -1863
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9A: Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mrs. Cowles, 4 August 1852
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9B: Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mary Edmondson, 2 October 1852
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9C: Emily Edmondson to Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, 3 June 1853
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10: Records of the Proceedings of The Ladies Board, 21 July 1851
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11A: Lucy Woodcock to Harry E. Woodcock, 20 December 1859
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11B: Lucy Woodcock to
Harry E. Woodcock, 30 December 1862
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11C: Lucy Woodcock to Harry E. Woodcock, 28 November 1863
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12A: Marianne Parker Dascomb to Reverend George Whipple, 19 September
1865
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12B: Louisa L. Alexander
to Reverend George Whipple, 5 October 1865
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12C: Reverend Francis L. Cardozo to Samuel Hunt, 1865
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13A: Mary Jane Churchill to Brother and Sister, 27 January 1850
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13B: Emily Pillsbury
Burke to Board of Trustees of Oberlin College,1850
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14: Mary Raley Photograph
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15: Frances Hazen, "Young Women," 1859
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16: “Joint Education,” Oberlin Evangelist 1861
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17: "Commencement Exercises," Oberlin Evangelist 1861
