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  • Writing for Change: The Power of Women’s Words
    High school curriculum activities, with resources and bibliographic references, dealing with the historic contributions of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley.
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Lucy Terry Prince

Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend - Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Lucy Terry Prince: Singer of History, A Biography - David R. Proper
Story of an African American woman in early New England, who began life as a slave and whose poem "The Bars Fight," an account of the last Indian raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, may be the first published African American poetry.

Black Woman: A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince - Bernard Katz and Jonathan Katz
 A fictionalized biography of Lucy Terry Prince, an eighteenth-century slave who sought education and legal redress for her family through the courts.

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Women

  • Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution - Natalie Bober
  • Boston Women’s Heritage Trail: Four Centuries of Boston Women
    A guide to 5 walks: Downtown; North End; Beacon Hill;Chinatown/South Cove; Back Bay -- which point to the lives and achievements of women who have enriched the history of Boston.
  • To My Husband and Other Poems - Anne Bradstreet
  • Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet - Charlotte Gordon
  • The Works of Anne Bradstreet - Jeannine Hensley
  • Abigail Adams: A Biography - Phyllis Lee Levin
  • Expectations: The Life of Phyllis Wheatley - Susan Bassler Pickford
    Play with scenes from the life of the African American poet, for middle school grades.
  • Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 - Laurel Ulrich
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Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson: Religious Reformer - Melina Mangal

Anne Hutchinson: Puritan Protester - Darlene R. Stille

American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, The Woman who Defied the Puritans - Eve LaPlante 
Charged with heresy and sedition, she defended herself brilliantly, but the court, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex." The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in her courageous story.

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Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman

Mumbet: The Story of Elizabeth Freeman - Harold W. Felton
Biography of a slave who won her freedom in the Massachusetts courts in 1781.

The Ashley's: A Pioneer Berkshire Family - Arthur C. Chase 
Account of the Ashley family and their home, in which the events that set the Elizabeth Freeman suit in motion took place.

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