Early 19c WomenEarly 19c Women•

• Property• Single • Married

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Women EducatorsWomen Educators• Troy, NY Female Seminary• Curriculum: math, physics, history, geography• Train female teachers

Emma Willard(1787-1870)

Mary Lyons(1797-1849)

• 1837 • Mt. Holyoke (College)

•first college for women

Prudence Crandall(1803-1890)

• 1831•Opened school for girls

• 1834 •Opened school for African-American girls

“ ” Concept

“ ” Concept

“ ”• A woman’s “sphere” was in the home

(it was arefuge from the cruel world outside)

• Her role was to “civilize” her husband andfamily• An 1830s MA minister:The power of woman is her dependence. A woman who gives up that dependence on man to become a reformer yields the power God has given her for her protection, and her character becomes unnatural!

Cult of Domesticity =Cult of Domesticity =

The inspired women to improve society

Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké

• Southern Abolitionists• Ran a school for females

Lucy Stone

• American Women’sSuffrage Assoc.

• Edited Woman’s Journal

Women’s RightsWomen’s Rights1840 split in the abolitionist movement over women’s role in it

London World Anti-Slavery Convention

female delegates denied right to attend convention

Lucretia Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1848

Seneca Falls DeclarationSeneca Falls Declaration

What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own

Way!

What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own

Way!