A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft | Moira Ferguson (essay date autumn 1992)
Moira Ferguson (essay date autumn 1992)
SOURCE: Ferguson, Moira. “Mary Wollstonecraft and the Problematic of Slavery.” Feminist Review 42 (autumn 1992): 82-102.
[In the following essay, Ferguson examines Wollstonecraft's discourse on slavery in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and other works as it pertains to the “enslavement” of women as well as to colonial slavery.]
A traffic that outrages every suggestion of reason and religion … [an] inhuman custom.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I love most people best when they are in adversity, for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
HISTORY AND TEXTS BEFORE A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN
In 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft became a major participant in contemporary political debate for the first time, due to her...
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