* indicates new readings. Preface. 1. Gender Patterns in the Colonial Era. Anne Hutchinson, Trial (1638). Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children (c. 1650). Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World: The Trial of Susanna Martin (1692). Femme Sole Trader Act (1718). Benjamin Wadsworth, A Well-Ordered Family (1712). Chrestien Le Clercq, The Customs and Religion of the Indians (c. 1700). Mary Jemison, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1724). Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter from an Indentured Servant (1756). * Eliza Pinckney, Birthday Resoultions (1750s). Judith Cocks, Letter to James Hillhouse (1795). 2. From Revolution to Republic: Moral Motherhood and Civic Mission. * Ann Hulton, Letter of a Loyalist Lady (1774). Esther DeBerdt Reed, Sentiments of an American Woman (1780). Molly Wallace, The Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia (1790). Abigail Adams, Letters to John Adams and His Reply (1776). * Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790). Ladies Society of New York, Constitution (1800). Colored Female Religious and Moral Society of Salem, Massachusetts, Constitution (1818). Emma Willard, Plan for Female Education (1819). John S.C. Abbott, The Mother at Home (1833). 3. Emerging Industrialization: Opportunity and Protest. Harriet Hanson Robinson, Lowell Textile Workers (1898). Letters to the Voice of Industry (1846). Ellen Monroe, Letter to the Boston Bee (1846). Female Labor Reform Association, Testimony Before the Massachusetts Legislature (1845). * Betsy Cowles, Report on Labor, Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851). Caroline Dall, Women's Right to Labor (1860). 4. Moral Activism, Abolitionism, and the Contest over Woman's "Place." * Advocate of Moral Reform, Important Lectures to Females (1841). Friend of Virtue, Died in Jaffrrey, Aged 27 (1841). Dorothea Dix, On Behalf of the Insane (1843). Catherine Beecher, The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children (1846). A Temperance Activist (1853). Elizabeth Emery and Mary P. Abbott, Letter to the Liberator (1836). Pastoral Letter to New England Churches (1837). Sarah Grimke, Reply to Pastoral Letter (1837). Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Philadelphia (1838). Angelina Grimke, An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States (1838). Benjamin Drew, Narrative of Escaped Slaves (1855). Harriet Tubman, Excerpts from a Biography by Her Contemporaries (c. 1880). Elizabeth Dixon Smith Geer, Journal (1847-1850).