In the video we watched for class
we learned a lot about Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It talked about her
struggles such as when she was just eleven years old her brother died
suddenly. Elizabeth went to seek comfort from her father and he said to
her “I wish you were a boy.” Another hardship she endured was going to
the same school as a certain boy, always being smarter and better than
he was academically, and in the end not being able to go to college like
he did simply because she was a girl. Both of these events that
occurred in her life inspired her to advocate women’s right and
particularly women’s right to vote,
Among the many good things Stanton did and accomplished there is still a very racist, and prejudice side to her. Although she was an abolitionist and eventually married an anti slavery lecturer it didn’t excuse her racist views she maintained throughout her life. She firmly believed that “educated white women were more fit to vote than emancipated black men”. She thought that because black men didn’t have a formal education they couldn’t be trusted with the power to vote and change things in the country. Stanton also thought that black women being emancipated was an even worse form of slavery because they’d be “slave” to an “ignorant” black man through marriage rather than an educated white man.
Martha Coffin Wright was another women we read about in the passage. She endured her own struggles that led her to advocate women’s rights as well. Wright noticed unfairness in unequal pay to men and women and thought it should be the same, even though her husband deemed it nonsense.
Martha Coffin Wright along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton both attended the meeting along with a few other women to discuss a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. Based on the conversation these women had over tea Stanton made a rough draft of the Declaration of Sentiments which was signed at the convention by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men. After Seneca Falls women’s rights conventions continued being held.
Also said in the passage there was not a women’s rights convention during the Civil War because Wright thought with all the crisis no one would listen so instead her along with Anthony decided to create the “Women’s Loyal National League”. This organization was made to collect signatures on petitions stating to abolish slavery. They had four hundred thousand signatures in about a year and a half. Congress used this petition to pass the thirteenth amendment.
Among the many good things Stanton did and accomplished there is still a very racist, and prejudice side to her. Although she was an abolitionist and eventually married an anti slavery lecturer it didn’t excuse her racist views she maintained throughout her life. She firmly believed that “educated white women were more fit to vote than emancipated black men”. She thought that because black men didn’t have a formal education they couldn’t be trusted with the power to vote and change things in the country. Stanton also thought that black women being emancipated was an even worse form of slavery because they’d be “slave” to an “ignorant” black man through marriage rather than an educated white man.
Martha Coffin Wright was another women we read about in the passage. She endured her own struggles that led her to advocate women’s rights as well. Wright noticed unfairness in unequal pay to men and women and thought it should be the same, even though her husband deemed it nonsense.
Martha Coffin Wright along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton both attended the meeting along with a few other women to discuss a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls. Based on the conversation these women had over tea Stanton made a rough draft of the Declaration of Sentiments which was signed at the convention by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men. After Seneca Falls women’s rights conventions continued being held.
Also said in the passage there was not a women’s rights convention during the Civil War because Wright thought with all the crisis no one would listen so instead her along with Anthony decided to create the “Women’s Loyal National League”. This organization was made to collect signatures on petitions stating to abolish slavery. They had four hundred thousand signatures in about a year and a half. Congress used this petition to pass the thirteenth amendment.
