{"id":46,"date":"1832-01-07T12:57:42","date_gmt":"1832-01-07T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/46"},"modified":"2014-01-25T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:14:17","slug":"ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies\u2019 Department &#8212; Women and Anti-slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">There is a statement about the qualities of the lady who conducts this Department, and several paragraphs from her pen, but without her name:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our Own Sex<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not language sufficiently strong to express our feelings of the necessity there is, that our own sex should become general and efficient workers in the cause of emancipation.\u00a0 \u2026\u2026\u2026.The situation of the slaves of our own sex, certainly claims in a pre-eminent degree the attention of American females \u2026..Some have already flung off the unwonted carelessness that so long benumbed their hearts \u2026\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article then is followed by a statement of the pleasure that the editor had in addressing the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston at a recent meeting, and concludes with the Constitution of the Society.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by a \u201cspirited extract\u201d from the tract by Mrs. Maria W. Steward (his spelling!)\u00a0 :<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet each one strive to excel in good housewifery, knowing that prudence and economy are the road to wealth \u2026\u2026..How long shall the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds and talents beneath a load of iron pots and kettles\u2026\u2026How long shall a<br \/>\nmean set of men flatter us with their smiles, and enrich themselves with our hard earnings &#8212;their wives fingers sparkling with rings, and they themselves laughing at our folly?&#8230;..\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a statement about the qualities of the lady who conducts this Department, and several paragraphs from her pen, but without her name: Our Own Sex \u201cWe have not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ladies\u2019 Department &#8212; Women and Anti-slavery<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,101],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ladies\u2019 Department -- Women and Anti-slavery | Selection from Garrison&#039;s Liberator<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a statement about the qualities of the lady who conducts this Department, and several paragraphs from her pen, but without her name: Our Own Sex\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies\u2019-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin_libfiles_dms\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/\",\"name\":\"Ladies\u2019 Department -- Women and Anti-slavery | Selection from Garrison's Liberator\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"1832-01-07T12:57:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-01-25T22:14:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/#\/schema\/person\/e206ff27e3093df8d5849f2e54b48cd3\"},\"description\":\"There is a statement about the qualities of the lady who conducts this Department, and several paragraphs from her pen, but without her name: Our Own Sex\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/ladies%e2%80%99-department-women-and-anti-slavery\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ladies\u2019 Department &#8212; 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