Sisterhood is Powerful: Womenís Suffrage & Seneca Falls
Mid 1800s, (black & white) women had
- No vote, and held no public offices
- Restricted rights to inheritance, property, wage assurance
- Little legal protection from abuse, adultery, child-napping
- No legal say in reproductive rights
- Often to work outside, but still maintain, the home
Womenís Suffrage (vote) Movement & Abolition Movement arise together
1843 Margaret Fullerís essay ìThe Great Debate: Man Vs. Womanî; 1845 Woman in the Nineteenth Century
1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (& Lucretia Mott), ìThe Seneca Falls Declarationî for (white) womenís freedom
Continued arguing around relation of slavesí rights and womenís rights: 1851 Sojourner Truthís ìAinít I A Woman?î