Woman abolitionist spent their lives at the very centre of debates over race and gender.Between 1830 and 1860 while most black woman lived in slavery,and perfomed heavyagricultural work and were subjected to the constant threat of rape by their masters.In the same decade white and black woman took their stand and spoke in front of hostile audiences, raised money and created national organizations in order to convince Americans that was wrong and captured slaves should be released.
Did the Woman joined this movement because they were seen as house keeping and as less intelligent gender in the Society than man?... because Rachel Filene Seidman (1993) cited Shirly Yee (1992) that the black leaders could not afford to suggest that woman were less intelligent than men, nor could they deny that women
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Betty Friedan wrote that “the only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.” The message here is that women need more than just a husband, children, and a home to feel fulfilled; women need independence and creative outlets, unrestrained by the pressures of society. Throughout much of history, women have struggled with the limited roles society imposed on them. The belief that women were intellectually inferior, physically weaker, and overemotional has reinforced stereotypes throughout history. In the 1960s, however, women challenged their roles as “the happy little homemakers.” Their story is the story of the Women’s Liberation Movement.
DeleteThe struggle for women’s rights did not begin in the 1960s. What has come to be called “Women’s Lib” was, in fact, the second wave of a civil rights movement that began in the early 19th century. This first wave revolved around gaining suffrage (the right to vote). Earlier women’s movements to improve the lives of prostitutes, increase wages and employment opportunities for working women, ban alcohol, and abolish slavery inspired and led directly to the organized campaign for women’s suffrage.
The movement towards women’s suffrage began in 1840 when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton went to London to attend a World Anti-Slavery Society Convention.
I just want to know whether the woman were in the plantations also as Amanda state in her post... if yes then there is a contradiction, because other sources state that woman were house wives, taking care of the family, not allowed to work...
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