chapter 15, sections 4,5. abolition movement and women’s rights
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Frederick Douglas This escaped slave became one of the best-known speakers in the US. He had learned to read and write in secret.TRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 15, Sections 4,5.
Abolition Movement and Women’s Rights
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke
• Daughters of a slaveholding family.
• Southern sisters that were antislavery.
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Frederick Douglas
• This escaped slave became one of the best-known speakers in the US. He had learned to read and write in secret.
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Fugitive Slaves…
…often moved along the underground railroad during the night.
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Harriet Tubman
• The most famous conductor on the “underground railroad”.
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The “Gag Rule” prohibited discussions of anti-slavery petitions in the US House of Representatives in the early 1800s.
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Sojourner Truth
• This ex-slave abolitionist and women’s rights speaker challenged her audiences to change their perceptions that women were the weaker sex.
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In most states in the early and mid-1800s it was illegal for married women to own and
control their own wages and property.
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Some women believed that women didn’t need any new rights because they were
different than men.
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Many men in the 1800s felt that women lacked the physical and mental strength
to survive without men’s assistance.
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Some male reform leaders did not support the full involvement of women in
the reform movements.
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Lucy Stone
• She became the first activist to suggest changing the institution of marriage. She kept her last name when she got married.
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Susan B. Anthony
• Born to a Quaker household, she went on to be a leading organizer in the women’s rights movement. She argued for equal pay for equal work.