Chapter 15, Sections 4,5.

Abolition Movement and Women’s Rights

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

• Daughters of a slaveholding family.

• Southern sisters that were antislavery.

Frederick Douglas

• This escaped slave became one of the best-known speakers in the US. He had learned to read and write in secret.

Fugitive Slaves…

…often moved along the underground railroad during the night.

Harriet Tubman

• The most famous conductor on the “underground railroad”.

The “Gag Rule” prohibited discussions of anti-slavery petitions in the US House of Representatives in the early 1800s.

Sojourner Truth

• This ex-slave abolitionist and women’s rights speaker challenged her audiences to change their perceptions that women were the weaker sex.

In most states in the early and mid-1800s it was illegal for married women to own and

control their own wages and property.

Some women believed that women didn’t need any new rights because they were

different than men.

Many men in the 1800s felt that women lacked the physical and mental strength

to survive without men’s assistance.

Some male reform leaders did not support the full involvement of women in

the reform movements.

Lucy Stone

• She became the first activist to suggest changing the institution of marriage. She kept her last name when she got married.

Susan B. Anthony

• Born to a Quaker household, she went on to be a leading organizer in the women’s rights movement. She argued for equal pay for equal work.