CONTENTS

    SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Introduction

1  Pious Pioneering: The Roots of Reform, 1810–1827

2  Growing Pains: Teaching and Single Life, 1827–1834

3  The Beginning of Antislavery Commitment, 1834–1837

4  Oberlin College and the Power of Education, 1837–1840

5  The Maturation and Merging of Teaching and Antislavery, 1840–1850

6  Women’s Rights and Career Achievements, 1850–1860

7  The Civil War, Blindness, and Postwar Reform, 1860–1872

    Primary Sources

    STUDY QUESTIONS

    NOTES

    ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX