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The women’s rights movement can be thought to have begun in the 1830s with Sarah and Angelina Grimke, abolitionists who spoke out for women’s rights, or in the later 1840s, with the women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
Abolitionist women found strength in numbers, joining together to form societies that used various methods to bring about the end of slavery in the United States. Women’s anti-slavery activism grew out of traditional female responsibilities for upholding moral standards through religion and ministering to the poor, elderly, and infirm.
18 Αυγ 2020 · Nevertheless, the abolitionist movement attracted quite a few women to its active ranks. White women came out of their domestic sphere to work against the enslavement of others. Black women spoke from their experience, bringing their story to audiences to elicit empathy and action.
Many of the women who would sign that Declaration and work to secure equality for women were also active abolitionists who believed that woman, like the slave; was entitled to equal rights. Both movements, of course, have had very complicated histories since, full of triumph and disappointment.
Women abolitionist activities affirmed the power of women to enact social change on a political spectrum. Along with anti-slavery fairs and public speaking, women abolitionists worked in petition campaigns. The practice of petitioning was weaponized by radical abolitionists in the 1830s.
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.
13 Ιουν 2018 · Abolitionist Feminism asks us to consider the violence and harm caused by the state, as well as inter-personally, and seek alternative strategies for addressing these harms. I came to Abolitionist Feminism through working directly with women who were in and leaving prison while I was a staff member of Women in Prison.
