This article talks about Martha Coffin Wright, the chief leader of
women's rights convention, and president of National Women suffrage
Association.
Martha Coffin (1806,1848) was born in Boston and raised
in Quaker town , she was a part of the Historic Seneca Falls convention,
along with Lucretia Mott ( sister), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Martha
Married Peter Pelhamin in 1824 and moved with him to Florida, because
she didn't marry a Quaker she was kicked out from the town.
After
Peter died in. 1826 , she married the lawyer David Wright in 1829, and
was living in Aurora. In 1833 she visited her sister Lucretia , and got
involved in organized Anti-slavery movement , where she met William
Lioyd Garrison .
After moving to Auburn , she started realizing how
women were undermined in this society, and the fact that married women
can't by property, vote, and get paid half the amount the men get paid,
pissed off Martha more and she got more involved working for women's
rights. Seneca Falls convention in 1848 was women's freedom revolution ,
signed by sixty-eight women and thirty men , which declared that all
men and women are equal. However Martha didn't give a speech in the
convention, her contribution was through writing , and Douglass ;who was
attending the convention , heard the article and wanted to republish
it. Moreover, Martha spoke for the first time , at the third national
convention in 1852 in Syracuse where she met Susan B Anthony , a close
friend of Martha. Later on, Martha traveled to Cleveland with Lucreta in
1853 and served as the secretary of the fourth national
convention,Next, she went back to Philadelphia and attended the founding
American Anti-slavery society , and public debate on the authority of
the bible, because leaders used the bible to attack women's rights, and
defend slavery .
Martha was also the president of the National women
suffrage association, with Anthony and Stanton , with opposition
“American women suffrage Association” led by Stone and her husband Henry
Blackwell.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton , born in a rich family. Her
father was a successful lawyer thus, she got s sense of law from her
father, she thought politics was the way to help with women's rights .
Elizabeth was considered a radical , that used racial comments to get
was she wanted . She was opposed because she talked about marriage and
divorce , and wanted women to be able to vote before the black people
could . She also talked about, and supported, Anti-slavery , and was
part of the National Women's Rights Association.
The purpose of this article and the video is to show what some
women went through in the past is the results of the rights that women
have today . Moreover , it talks about the oppositions that tried to put
a stop to these organizations. We didn't hear the point of view of
black people , also, we didn't hear much about Lucretia's contribution
to these conventions.
In class we talked about the Peculiar Responsibilities of American Women .
This
article made me understand the reason why women didn't have the same
equal rights as men did . Thus, because of subordination it was reasoned
to have a superior (men) and inferior (women ) , and without it both
genders will be degraded , meaning that there always should be so one to
be in control of someone else . However, this doesn't mean that women
should not have equal social and political rights , where women are who
shape the men if the future . In conclusion from what I understood , is
that women should have equal rights as men , but women duties should
defer from men's duties. We also looked at pictures of women in long
uncomfortable dresses , which show what women had to go through to
maintain the social standard .
We talked about why Elizabeth , even though she hated slavery, she
had some racial comments? We concluded that Elizabeth simply didn't want
block people to have more right or to vote before white women can .
We
talked about what Elizabeth was considered radical ? And that as
because she talked about marriage and divorce, which contradicted with
the principle of the bible, and that pissed some of the leaders and
priests.
Why didn't David ( Martha's husband) didn't get involve in the
women's rights convention or the (NWSA) ? Did Lucretia have more
activities outside the women's convention ? Did the losses that Martha
went through affected her life's work ?
