Monday, December 19, 2011

Second part of the essay?

Women played a strong role in the abolitionist movement. By the mid-1830s abolitionists debated on the role of women in ‘male’ activities, and though they considered women’s contribution important they did not leave an official delegate such as Elizabeth Cady Staton or Lucretia Coffin Mott speak at the world anti-slavery convention in London in 1840. There were many upper and middle cl women supporting the Abolition movement such as the Grimké sisters (Sarah and Angelina) who used to have speeches in front of women audiences, but when they started to have speeches in front of mingled audiences they got several critics and where defined ‘unnatural’ because they “umed the place and tones of a man as a public reformer”. (The era of Reform 612) Such statement made the women think about the `slavery of ’ and Angelina Grinké observed in 1837 “The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own”. Since then many women joined the new cause, and supported the issue of Women’s Rights. In July 1848 more than 300 women and men gathered in Seneca Falls, New York . There they read the Declaration of Sentiments and discussed about the condition of subordination of women and signed such Declaration in which they yzed their condition and demanded the ‘elective franchise’.

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