Revolutionary Heart is about a passionate advocate of the early women’s civil right movement, the temperance movement, the plight of the unprotected females and children, and the abolishment of slavery. Clarina H. Nichols was an inspiring, strong, maternal woman who crisscrossed the United States pushing for various reforms in the new frontier that impacted the lives of both men and woman who were unaware of the benefits of women’s citizenship and the responsibilities. She lived during the antebellum period and fought for her gender for decades until her death. She was an accomplished writer and delivered one hundred speeches over two decades defending her causes. The author, Diane Eickhoff, throughout her book expresses the theme that Nichols …show more content…
The author expresses specifically, that “anyone reading those letters and articles can see that this was an unjustly overlooked pioneer of the woman’s movement.”. Nichols belief that women should own their property and make wages to gain security and is evident in her writings from the editorial pages in the Democrat. Her opinions were communicated by men she influenced to the state legislature of Vermont resulting in its first married women’s property rights bill in …show more content…
The only mention of the temperance movement and the impact on women is in Chapter 11, on page (301), where the “American Temperance Society” is introduced, but it isn’t informative enough about the impact it will have on women in history. The Kansas expansion is cited in Chapter 14, the information they have is mostly about the political parties and the dividing of the territory with very little about the issue of “Bleeding Kansas” the expansion of slavery and the differences of opinion on it. The Revolutionary Heart, goes into great detail to describe how women fought and assembled unlike the textbook that merely states nearly two dozen other women right conventions