The Role of Christianity in the American Womans

The Role of Christianity in the American Woman's Movement By Brenda Ayres

The Woman’s To Blame

Patriarchy

Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia

Anne Hutchinson on Trial

Nay, I came to keep bloodguiltiness from you, desireing you to repeal the unrighteous and unjust law made against the innocent servants of the Lord. Nay, man, I am not now to repent—Mary Dyer, 1660

He is no respecter of person (Acts 10: 34)

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal 3: 28)

“Egalité des Hommes et des Femmes” By Marie de Gourney, 1622

Cotton Mather The sex may be esteemed [for] the Share which it has had in writing those Oracles, which make us wise unto Salvation. As one woman is the Mother of Him who is the essential word of God so diverse women have been the writers of the Declarative word—Ornaments of the Daughters of Zion, 1691

Martha Wright Susan B. Anthony

Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops (Matthew 10: 27)

Lucretia Mott Abby Kelly

In fact, the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason; or on what foundation rests the throne of God? Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

Charles Brockden Brown, Alcuin, 1798

Judith Sargent Murray Margaret Fuller

True Womanhood?

The Beecher Family

Catharine Beecher

Temperance Movement

Woman’s Club of Richland Center 1908

The Largest Women’s Reform Societies • American Sunday School Union • American Bible Society • The American Female Moral Reform Society • The Female Assistance Society • The American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless • The Moral Reform Society • The Women's Prison Association • The American Missionary Society.

Lowell Girls

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.

We hold these truths to be selfevident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights’ that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed.

To get the word male in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of the country fiftytwo years of pauseless campaign thereafter. During that time they were forced to conduct fifty -six campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to urge Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns to induce State constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into State constitutions; 277 campaigns to persuade State party conventions to include woman suffrage planks; 30 campaigns to urge presidential party conventions to adopt woman suffrage planks in party platforms, and 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses. (107)

I desire you to remember the ladies…. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. . [w]e are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound to obey any laws in which we have no voice or representation. "

The 19 th Amendment "Article-, Section 1. - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. "Section 2. - Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article. "

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