Womens Suffrage 1830 s and 1840 s 1

Women’s Suffrage 1830 s and 1840 s 1

1838 Speech at Pennsylvania Hall

1838 Speech at Pennsylvania Hall

KIERSTEN Sarah Grimke Arguments for Women’s Equality from Genesis In Genesis, men and women are created equal

[Grimke cont. ] PILAR Asks to “stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy” Accuses man of “Lust for Dominion”

ELIOT Treatment of Women as Property Grimke

LUCY Sarah Grimke “False translations of some passages by MEN” “Woman. . . as a public performer. . . becomes unnatural”

RENZA Sarah Grimke “Made her the instrument of his selfish gratification”

Angelina Grimke, Speech at PA Hall SARAH Responding to claims of the “happy slave”; “stones were thrown” Those in the North fall under “the corrupting influence of slavery”

Angelina Grimke, Speech at PA Hall CAROL In PA “the slave had no place in their thoughts” She urges women to petition the legislature

Lucretia Mott

LIANNA Scripture & gender Lucretia Mott, 1839 speech “True womanhood” “let not these degenerate into a kind of effeminacy”

COLE Lucretia Mott 1839 The intellectual Lyceum and instructive lecture room

ELENA Lucretia Mott 1839 Catherine Beecher on “cultivation and development”

EMILY Lucretia Mott 1839 “The law degrades the wife. . . almost to the level of slaves. ”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls

Stanton, “Address on Women’s Rights” “He cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions. . . ” JADE

“Address on Women’s Rights” “none more vitally affects the whole human fami PERRY

Stanton, “Address on Women’s Rights” Biological Determinism: “Natural inborn, inbred superiority” As the nations of the earth emerge from a state of barbarism, the sphere of women gradually becomes wider but not even under what is thought to be the full blaze of the sun of civilization is it what God designed it to be. ELLEN

Stanton, “Declaration of Sentiments” “Woman’s moral nature” “We would not have Women less pure, but we would have man more Stanton, Address on Women’s Rights 1 GRACE

EBUKA Stanton, Address on Women’s Rights “A standing shame and disgrace to a professedly republican” people “The rights of drunkards, idiots, … ignorant foreigners are fully recogniz

Stanton, Address on Women’s Rights SYDNEY “the indifference indeed the contempt with which women regard our movement” Women campaigning for men’s education?

Stanton, Address on Women’s Rights MAGGIE Celebrated female Queens and leaders Separate spheres…and “destruction of despotism” ASHLEY