In Ch. 13, we made the connection that women (such as the Grimkes) first started in the abolitionist movement.  There, arguing for the rights of the enslaved, they began to realize that they themselves were unequal to white men.  Thus, the women's rights movement spawned from the abolitionist movement. 1.Do you think its appropriate for them to compare slavery to the position women held in this era?  2.Do you think that women like the Grimke sisters would have thought it fair that African Amer. men's rights will be acknowledged after the Civil War, but women will struggle for over half a century more?

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In Ch. 13, we made the connection that women (such as the Grimkes) first started in the abolitionist movement.  There, arguing for the rights of the enslaved, they began to realize that they themselves were unequal to white men.  Thus, the women's rights movement spawned from the abolitionist movement.

1.Do you think its appropriate for them to compare slavery to the position women held in this era? 

2.Do you think that women like the Grimke sisters would have thought it fair that African Amer. men's rights will be acknowledged after the Civil War, but women will struggle for over half a century more?

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