In "An Appeal To The Women of the Nominally Free States", Angelina Grimke, an American abolitionist and women's rights advocate in the 1800s, talks passionately about the mistreatment of black women in the North and South. Grimke had a deep commitment to women’s moral equality and was unique because she was a white southerner who lived her life in the North and cared very much about women slavery and racism. In her appeal, she criticizes Southern women for oppressing black women, but she is especially critical of the Northern women due to the hypocrisy that they are guilty of. The Northern women say they are abolitionists, but in reality they are not sympathetic to the prejudice and cruelty of the black woman around them. Throughout her appeal, Grimke repeatedly states that all women “are our sisters”, because she wants everyone to realize that all women are women no matter what color they are.
She was also put on trial and fined. She refused to pay the unjust fine which denied her chance to appeal, but was not imprisoned for it. Congress laughed at her when she gathered petitions from twenty six states and ten thousand signatures asking for passage of a suffrage movement. In territories where women had the vote, Anthony campaigned to make sure they were not blocked from joining the union (“Biography” 3). She composed and published “The History of Women Suffrage”, founded the International Council of Women, and the International Woman Suffrage Council.
The mission of the NAWSA was to fight for women’s rights and to also gain respect for all women in the United States. Alice Paul along with her friend Lucy Burns began to think of many ideas to help the suffrage movement but the NAWSA thought that their ideas were to extreme and would only cause problems for women in America. So Alice Paul and Lucy Burns started their own organization called the National Women’s Party or NWP. Which held the same concepts that the NAWSA but with a more radical or extreme approach. The NAWSA started criticizing the NWP for their methods and for protesting a president during the war.
Free now both physically and mentally she began to write her narrative. She wanted people in the North to know the inhumanity slaves endured, especially women. The sexual abuse contents of her narrative kept it from being published for many years. Excerpts are published by Horace Greeley in The New Tribune. Greeley opposed slavery as morally deficient and economically regressive, and during the 1850s, he supported the movement to prevent its extension.
Susan B. Anthony also opposed abortion, which she saw as another instance of a "double standard" imposed upon women. In the nineteenth century, the decision to undergo an abortion was very often decided by men. There were none of the standard contraceptive options available to women today. Antibiotics had yet to be invented, and abortion was a life threatening and unsanitary procedure for the woman. Anthony wrote that "when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged,” Susan B. Anthony encouraged women to register to vote and then vote, using the Fourteenth Amendment as justification.
The Abolitionist Movement 1830 – 1865 Alexander Cunningham UMUC Abstract The Abolitionist Movement during 1830 and 1865 was a crusade to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves, and to end racial segregation and discrimination. This anti-slavery movement consisted of black and white abolitionists in the North, with outposts in the upper South, who denounced slavery as illegal, immoral, economically backward and violated human rights. The advocating of these goals raised issues leading to the Civil War and the Emancipation of all slaves. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in northern churches and politics in the 1830s.In addition to advocating for immediate emancipation, abolitionists created Anti-Slavery Societies, and were supported by fellow Distinguished Anti-Slavery Advocates, Religious, Political, Radical and Militant Abolitionists who all argued for the same cause: emancipation of all slaves. This essay will recount well-known Anti-Slavery Advocates, societies and how these events known as the, “The Second Great Awakening,” contributed to the regional animosity between North and South and was a factor that leads to the Civil War.
She was jailed many times over the course of her life for publicly speaking and writing about her beliefs. In the early 1900’s she worked in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood of mostly poor, immigrants. She treated many women after “back alley abortions” or attempts at self-induced abortion. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously decide whether she will or will not be a mother,” (The Biography Website, 2014) It wasn’t until 1936 that the Supreme Court ruled that doctors could legally prescribe and discuss birth control methods. While I don’t agree with her thoughts on eugenics, I strongly believe in the right of every person to make decisions regarding their own health.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was a fearless writer, woman’s rights advocator, and anti-lynching crusader. She literally fought for gender and racial justice. On May 4, 1884, she was asked and later forced by a railroad conductor to give up her seat for a white man. Infuriated by the discrimination against her, she filed a suit against the railroad company. The suit sparked her career as a journalist.
Prior to the Civil War, African Americans were never treated very humanely. The Whites were the dominant race while the African Americans suffered under their commands as slaves who were treated unequally. Because slavery was such a huge issue, it became the reason of the outbreak of the Civil War. The African American troops in the movie Glory fought with their lives in hopes of winning the war to achieve freedom. Their goal was to abolish slavery completely and prevent it from harming many people.
Anthony was the organizational and tactical genius. She displayed this skill by appearing before every single congress between 1869 and1906 on behalf of the women’s suffrage. Stanton was the writer and thinker of the pair. She worked tirelessly for the women’s movement in all it’s phases, including divorce reform, birth control, the challenge of the churches, who opposed women’s legal rights. Together they fought women’s battles in the nineteenth century until Anthony got arrested.