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The Abolitionist Movement & Women’s Suffrage

Abolitionist Movement Abolitionist movement is associated with the desire to get rid of slavery Centered in Britain and the northern USA A secular, religious, economic, and political reasons. New media like newspapers drummed up public support Britain abolished slavery in 1834

Abolition Quotes And Images “repugnant to our religion” “Crime in the sight of God” “Not only morally wrong and economically inefficient but also politically unwise”

Women’s Suffrage • Many women in the West (Europe and their colonies with lots of European settlers like Australia, USA, Latin America, etc. ) were well literate/educated • They wanted to be involved in the abolitionist movement, but men kept them out • They decided they needed to focus on getting the right to vote • Emmeline Pankhurst in England = leader The condition of our sex is so deplorable that it is our duty to break the law in order to call attention to the reasons why we do.

He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man.

Susan B. Anthony Stanton & Elizabeth Cady • Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 = first women’s rights convention • Anthony & Cady-Stanton opposed the 14 th & 15 th Amendments & together they formed the National American Women Suffrage Association. • SBA- was fined for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election. ECS- Author of the Declaration of Sentiments- ignited the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States Her concerns included women's custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, and birth control. Women would not find voting rights until after World War I