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Sojourner Truth – 1 of 3 Real name is “Isabella
Baumfree” Slave in NY state Husband beaten to death Forced to marry & bear
children to a diff. slave Escapes a year before NY
outlaws slavery First black woman to win
in court – sues former owner for rights to her son
Sojourner Truth – 2 of 3
Garrison prints her autobiography
Very bold woman – once showed her “lady parts” to someone who accused her of being a man
Goes on a speaking tour Most famous speech is
“Ain’t I A Woman?”
S. Truth – “Ain’t I A Woman” Speech That man over there says that women need to be helped into
carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Lucretia Mott – 1 of 3 PA Teacher & Quaker
Minister Began as abolitionist Joined women’s rights
movement after: 1st Learning men paid
3x as much
2nd Being segregated at World’s Anti-Slavery conference in Britain
Lucretia Mott – 2 of 3
Met Garrison & Elizabeth Cady Stanton at World’s Anti-Slavery convention
The 2 would create the first women’s rights convention – Seneca Falls, 1848
While there, Frederick Douglass became a strong supporter of women’s rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 1 of 3
NY Activist Dad a judge and Congressman
who “taught her like a man” Graduated tops at her school,
but not allowed to go to college b/c she was a woman
Married & traveled US Met & inspired by major
abolitionists and women’s rights activists You name them, she met them!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 2 of 3
Moved to Seneca Falls in 1847 for husband’s poor health
Bored, so begins to read & write Inspired by TJ’s Dec. of
Independence; writes Declaration of Rights & Sentiments for women’s rights
After Civil War, will oppose black voting rights because women were EXCLUDED
Will inspire Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony – 1 of 3
NY Teacher & Quaker Family was wealthy; lost it all
in Van Buren’s Panic of 1837 Befriends F. Douglass in 1847 Met E.C. Stanton in 1851 Began wearing fancy dresses,
but stopped b/c men focused more on that than her ideas
Her speaking at 1853 teachers’ convention was huge issue
Susan B. Anthony – 2 of 3
Would break from abolitionist movement when she saw sexism in male abolitionists
Formed the Women’s Temperance Movement
Arrested for voting in Election of 1872 (because she was a woman)
Would have the legacy of organizing the core of the women’s rights movement
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