1.According to the Declaration of Sentiments, what were some of the economic limitations of women in the 1800’s?
2. What were some political limitations?
-please explain and make it relate to the text
Transcribed Image Text: Reform for Women's Rights: Seneca Falls Convention
While many associate the women's rights movements with the 1910s-1920s, one wave of
feminism began in the early-1800s. Male and female reformers advocated for more equal
treatment of women, both in the domestic (home) and political sphere. Perhaps the most
famous event from this time period was the meeting of reformers at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.
Reformers wrote a famous document titled the "Declaration of Sentiments" where they
advocated for better treatment of women in America. Read an excerpt below:
"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 just powers from the consent of the governed...
Three of the most well-
known reformers at
Seneca Falls were
Frederick Douglass
(left), Elizabeth Cady
Stanton (bottom left),
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations
on the part of man toward woman...the establishment of an absolute
tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world...
and Lucretia Mott
(bottom right).
images fram Britonnico
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the
elective franchise...
He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns..
He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from
those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration...
He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence
In her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to
lead a dependent and abject life..."
Source Notionol Park Service
Transcribed Image Text: Reform for Women's Rights: Sojourner Truth
"Born into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would
become one of the most powerful advocates for human rights in the nineteenth century" (National Park
Service). Truth escaped slavery, became a preacher, changed her name, and became involved in the
women's rights and abolitionist movements. She continued to advocate for the rights of African Americar
and women throughout her life.
In 1851, she delivered one of the most recognizable abolitionist and feminist speeches in American history,
titled "Ain't I a Woman?". Read an excerpt of her speech below.
"I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no
man could head me! And ain't Ia woman? I could work as much
and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash
as well! And ain'tla woman? I have borne thirteen children, and
seen most all sold off to slavery, and whenI cried out with my
mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain'tIa 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 oll alone, these women together ought to be
able to turn it back, and get it right side up ogain! And now they is
asking to do it, the men better let them."
Source: Notional Park Service
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