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Women’s Struggle for Equal Rights (Women begin to divide focus between abolition & Women’s Rights Movements)
* Early Writings for Women’s Rights
* Sojourner Truth
2. Opposing the Call for Women’s Rights (Although some opposed equal rights for women, the movement continued to grow)
* The Movement Grows
* Opposition to Women’s Rights
Seneca Falls Convention (Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott organize the first public meeting about Women’s Rights )
* Declaration of Sentiments
* Women’s Rights Leaders

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Women’s Struggles for Equal Rights
Fighting for abolition led women to fight for equality for women
Women had to defend their right to speak in public
A. Early Writings for Women’s Rights
1838 Sarah Grimke writes a pamphlet called Letters on the Equality of the Sexes & the Condition of the Women
1845 transcendentalist Margaret Fuller writes Women in the 19th Century. This book influenced many in the movement
B. Sojourner Truth
Powerful supporter of women’s rights & abolition
Truth was born into slavery in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree
She changed her name for her mission as a traveler (Sojourner) who spreads the “Truth” about slavery & women’s rights

3. 13-5 Women’s Rights Pages 423-428
Sarah Grimke wrote a pamphlet on the condition of women that helped the movement.
Sojourner Truth changed her name from Isabella Baumfree and traveled the U.S. speaking the truth about slavery and women’s rights
Margaret Fuller was a transcendentalist who wrote about women’s rights.

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2. Opposing the Call for Women’s Rights
Publications for Women’s Rights appeared after the Revolutionary War, but were not a strong issue then
A. The Movement Grows
Women began to be more active in leading reform movements
Working with men in reforms led some men to begin to fight for women’s rights
B. Opposition to Women’s Rights
Many women did not believe they needed rights
Men did not want Women’s Rights to interfere with a woman tending to her family at home
Some also thought that women lacked the physical & mental strength to survive without men’s protection

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Women worked together to organize themselves and promote the causes of Women’s Rights.
This is an illustration of women working around the home in the 1840’s.

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3. Seneca Falls Convention
While on her honeymoon, Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World’s Anti-slavery Convention
Stanton was not allowed to participate in Anti-slavery Convention
The treatment at the Anti-Slavery Convention angered Stanton & her friend Lucretia Mott
Stanton & Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention
A. Declaration of Sentiments
The Convention organizers wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
This Declaration detailed beliefs about the injustices towards women
The Declaration of Independence was used as the basis for the Sentiments – 18 charges were made against men
B. Women’s Rights Leaders
Lucy Stone, a speaker for the Anti-Slavery Society, was a gifted speaker who advance the cause of Women’s Rights
Susan B. Anthony brought strong organizational skills, & helped turn the movement into a political one
Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote many documents & speeches for the movement that Anthony delivered- founder & leader of National Women’s Suffrage Association

7. 13-5 Women’s Rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Illustration of Seneca Falls Convention

8. 13-5 Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony on dollar coin Lucy Stone
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Susan B. Anthony on dollar coin
Lucy Stone
Declaration of Sentiments