User:EmilyMeeds/Choose an Article

Option 1
Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis This is the article I ended up choosing ^ Class- S article with little relevance according to wiki.

However, I believe given the addition of a "feminism" section. This article could be important for the history of feminist thought

Sources:

Cradle of Feminism: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1833-1840 / by Ira V. Brown (pg. 147)

Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity / by Janet Gray.

The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten / by Charlotte L. Forten Grimké, 1837-1914 (pg. 16)

Anti-slavery Convention of American Women, 1st : 1837 : New York, N.Y.). (1837). An appeal to the women of the nominally free states, issued by an Anti-slavery Convention of American Women, held by adjournments from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837. : [Eight lines from Sarah Forten]. William S. Dorr, printer, no. 123 Fulton-Street.

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation, edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar, and James Brewer Stewart.

'''Sumler-Edmond, J. (2005). Forten Sisters. African American Studies Center.'''

Poems

Untitled Poem written by Sarah Louise Forten, 1814-1883, in An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States, Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held by adjournments from the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837, 2nd ed. by Sarah Forten. (Boston, MA: Isaac Knapp, 1838).

Monroe Alphus Majors, 1864-1960; in Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (Jackson, TN: M.V. Lynk Publishing House, 1893), 195-195

The Slave Girl's Address to her Mother written by Sarah Louise Forten, 1814-1883, in The Liberator, Vol. 1, no. 5, 29 January 1831, p. 18, 1 page(s)

A Mother's Grief written by Sarah Louise Forten, 1814-1883, in The Liberator, Vol. 2, no. 27, 7 July 1832, p. 106, 1 page(s)

The Slave Girl's Farewell written by Sarah Louise Forten, 1814-1883, in The Liberator, Vol. 5, no. 26, 27 June 1835, p. 104, 1 page(s)

Option 2
Blenda

Class - C article with little relevance

Norse legend of woman who saved Sweden.

Would have liked to include a section in this article of its feminist uses (ways in which this folklore was utilized).

But not enough scholarly sources. and very little could be found in English. However, it lead me to option 3:

Option 3
In particular, the utilization of this tale of Blenda by Johan Stiernhöök was of great interest. He used it in his "De iure sueonum et gothorum vetusto" (1672)

to argue for women's property rights in Sweden. But language barriers were and issue and translated works did not exist.