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Meet the underappreciated yet fascinating early nineteenth-century women who dared to pursue America’s cherished values of liberty and justice for all

Founding Radicals tells the eye-opening stories of American radical speaker, newspaper editor, and philosopher Frances Wright along with a dozen other historically impactful women who were active in the first decades of the American republic. In a time shaped by the revolutionary fervor of the eighteenth century, filled with mavericks and firebrands creating a new country, these women stood out for breaking boundaries and inspiring powerful political and literary change.

Presidents, first ladies, and momentous political firsts like the Continental Congress dominate the traditional story of young America. But there’s another side: the American experiment was also molded by three generations of outspoken women who took on the new nation’s deepest contradictions and profoundest values in speech and in print. Though groundbreaking in their day, the names of these compelling campaigners for freedom have faded from our telling of American history. Yet their impact can still be traced in surprising ways. These women include:

• Ernestine Rose, a rabbi’s daughter turned feminist lecturer
• Maria Stewart, a free African American and one of the first female orators in the young nation
• Judith Sargent Murray, an American writer whose essay advocating for women’s rights beat Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women by a year
• Lucy Say, one of early America’s most respected scientific illustrators