1. Anti-Slavery Movement & Women’s Rights
8th Grade American History

2. Life under Slavery Long days and TOUGH work
Suffered beatings, whippings, humiliation
Denied life’s basic necessities
Denied education
Families separated

3. Abolition

4. Fredrick Douglas An escaped slave who became an abolitionist leader
Published the North Star about abolition
Served as an adviser to President Lincoln

5. Sojourner Truth Runaway slave
Leading figure for women’s rights and abolition
Gave the famous “Ain’t I a woman” speech

6. Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad

7. Suffrage Women faced limits:
Women could not vote
Women could not own property
Women were not supposed to speak in public
Therefore the idea of women’s suffrage become very popular during the 19th Century
Suffrage: The right to VOTE

8. Seneca Falls Convention
Formed a “Declaration of Sentiments” which was similar to the Declaration of Independence, only it was about women’s rights
Called for voting rights (suffrage) and equal economic opportunities for women
Failed, but started the movement

9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s rights leader
Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention

10. Susan B. Anthony Supported suffrage, abolition, temperance,
and Equal Rights