THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD ( 1781–1860) : Women’s Rights Movement & Abolitionist Movement

1. THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD (1781–1860):Women’s Rights Movement & Abolitionist Movement Shirley Moiy Rachelle Noelle

2. WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT "You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can't stop us, neither.” – Sojourner Truth, Mob Convention 1854

3. CAUSES • Women denied suffrage (the right to vote in political elections)

4. PEOPLE • LucretiaMott • 1793-1880 • Abolitionist and women's rights activist • 1821 became Quaker minister and spoke against slavery • only woman to speak for American Anti-Slavery Society • 1846 founded Northern Association for the Relief and Employment of Poor Women • 1848 Organized Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton • 1850 published speech Discourse On Woman • Usually never wrote her speeches down • Nicknamed Lucretia “Angry” Mott

5. PEOPLE • SojournerTruth • 1797-1883 • RealnameIsabella Baumfree • African American abolitionist and women’srightsactivist • 1826 fled from slavery with daughter after lied to by owner • “I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.” • 1851 makes famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?” at Ohio Women’sRights Convention • “Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

6. PEOPLE • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • 1815-1902 • Created first feminist movements in the US • 1848 Wrote Declaration of Sentiments  presented at first women’s rights in Seneca Falls, NY • Fought for more than voting rights • property rights • employment/income • divorce • economics • birth control • 1895 Wrote The Women’s Bible  radical feminism concerning liberation from the patriarchy • "the clergy denounced it as the work of Satan” –Stanton

7. PEOPLE • Susan B. Anthony • 1820-1906 • 1849 co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement • Denied right to join Temperance Movement  created own with Stanton • Spoke out against alcohol abuse • 1868 co-founded the women's rights journalThe Revolution • made about 75-100 speeches annually • February 15  Susan B. Anthony Day • 1869 • Supported American Equal Rights Association with Frederick Douglass  black men didn’t care for women’s rights  Anthony focused mainly on women’s rights

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11. MAJOR EVENTS • 1839 Married Women's Property Act • allowed women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property. • 1848 Declaration of Sentiments • Document stating that women should be granted all of the right and privileges that men possessed • 1850 Woman's Rights Convention in Salem, Ohio • First conference where only women could participate • 1853 Paulina Wright Davis creates The Una • first feminist paper made completely by women • 1920 Women can vote • Women in the USA gain the right to vote in the 19th Amendment

12. PRIMARY SOURCE • declaration of sentiments • 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 self-evident: 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 powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these rights, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

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14. ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

15. Causes • Slavery was an economic failure • Prevented the expansion of paid labor and kept the wages low for those laborers who were able to get jobs • The slavery went against the Declaration of Independence • “All men are created equal.”

16. Frederick Douglass • He was a literate run away slave • During the civil war he advised Lincoln to let former slaves fight for the north. • He told his story and his point of view on slavery at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery convention, he was then asked to join the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. • Later in his life he also wrote an autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself

17. Primary Source • “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of 'stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.' I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me. We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members. The man who wields the blood-clotted cowskin during the week fills the pulpit on Sunday, and claims to be a minister of the meek and lowly Jesus. . . . The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave-trade go hand in hand together. The slave prison and the church stand near each other. The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time. The dealers in the bodies and souls of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other. The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise.” • Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

18. Harriet Tubman • Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave and abolitionist who also helped with the Underground Railroad which led to the freedom of around 300 slaves. • The Underground Railroad was an underground tunnel in which slaves would use to travel from south to north, in order to run away from their owners and become free.

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20. Wage labor • Due to the increase in industry and manufacturing, businesses started to require more workers led to the development of wage labor • Wage laborers worked around 16 hours a day, 7 times a week on minimum wage • In 1934, a group of laborers formed the National Trades Union which successfully established a stable amount of work hours and income for wage laborers.

21. Compromise of 1850 • In 1850, five laws were passed in order to try and obtain California with the least amount of chaos • California requested to enter the United States as a free state, which would create an imbalance between free and slave states. • As a result, the fugitive slave act was created and slave trade in Washington D.C. was abolished.

22. Emancipation Proclamation • In 1863, President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation • “All persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” • This however, still did not end slavery in the United States.

23. Homework q’s! • Describe what either Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman did to fight against slavery. • What are two major events during women's movement and explain what happened?? • What was the Underground Railroad?

24. SOURCES • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman's_Bible • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/lincolns-womens-rights/ • http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/pdf/AntebellumWomen_LOne.pdf • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony • http://www.anb.org/cush_rights.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton • http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/WIC/Historical-Essays/No-Lady/Womens-Rights/ • http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/suffrage.html