Harriet Martineau

Examples of Harriet Martineau in the following topics:

• Early Social Research and Martineau

  • Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.
  • Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist .
  • Although today Martineau is rarely mentioned, she was critical to the early growth of the sociological discipline.
  • As early as 1831, Martineau wrote on the subject of "Political Economy" (as the field of economics was then known).
  • Harriet Martineau introduced Comte to the English-speaking world by translating his works.

• Domesticity and "Domestics"

  • Women who advocated for women's rights, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, and Harriet Martineau, were accused of disrupting the natural order of things and were condemned as unfeminine.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a bestselling novel that convinced many Northerners of the evils of slavery.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, was an anti-slavery novel published in 1852 and written by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe .
  • The title page of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
  • An engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1872, based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.

• Federalism and the Civil War: The Dred Scott Decision and Nullification

  • Scott legally married Harriet Robinson, with the knowledge and consent of Emerson in Fort Snelling.
  • Emerson left Scott and Harriet at Fort Snelling, renting them out for profit.
  • He sent for Scott and Harriet and while en route, Scott's daughter Eliza was born on along the Mississippi River between Iowa and Illinois.
  • By 1840, Emerson's wife, Scott, and Harriet returned to St.

• The Impending Crisis

  • The Impending Crisis of the South condemns the institution of slavery, but Helper did not employ a sentimental or moralistic abolitionist approach to his arguments (in contrast to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin).
  • Compare the anti-slavery literature of Hinton Rowan Helper and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Women and Democracy

  • Although her career was short, she had set the stage for the African-American women speakers who followed her, including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman.
  • Harriet Wilson became the first African American to publish a novel addressing the theme of racism.

• The Old South

  • The abolitionist movement was led by social reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe; former slaves such as Frederick Douglass; and free blacks such as Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.
  • The most influential abolitionist tract was Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the best-selling novel and play by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
  • The title page of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• From Gradualism to Abolition

  • Though illegal under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, participants such as Harriet Tubman, Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, Amos Noë Freeman, and others put themselves at risk to help slaves escape to freedom.
  • A prominent example of this is Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.

• Women and Slavery

  • Harriet Jacobs documented her experience with sexual abuse in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

• Women and the War

  • Harriet Tubman was a noted humanitarian, abolitionist, and spy.