woman’s suffrage and the abolitionist movement

Lesson 5Suffrage Unit

Suffrage and the woman’s sphere- slavery is not moral!

Abolitionist leaders like Lucy Stone, the Grimke Sisters, and Susan B. Anthony advocated for universal suffrage

1837- First National Female Anti-Slavery Society Convention held in NYC

1851 Sojourner Truth gave a speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Ohio “Ain’t I a Woman?”

1852 Connecticut’s Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

This novel changed the attitudes of many Americans about slavery

www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/

Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are friends and political allies

1866 the American Equal Rights Association is formed to promote universal suffrage for all genders and races

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are key in this organization’s founding

Frederick Douglass is a regular speaker at women’s suffrage events

1868 the Fourteenth Amendment specified citizens and voters as males

The wording of this amendment upset suffragists and split the party into two factions

NWSA was started by Anthony and Cady Stanton in NYC

Stone and Julia Ward Howe started AWSA in Boston

The fifteenth Amendment enfranchises black men but excludes all women, white and black

NWSA disagrees and Anthony makes some remarks against black men that ends her friendship with Douglass

Half of suffragists believe that black men needed the vote more than white women

“It is the Negro’s hour”- what does this mean? Do you agree?