Women and the abolitionist movement

Question 1

Insistence of the evilness of slavery

Answer 1

Led to women in the anti-slavery society

Question 2

Movement was organised with

Answer 2

Men running the society
Women supporting it

Question 3

1840s/50s

Answer 3

Women took on a more central role in the movement

Question 4

1837
2 anti-slavery lectures given by Sarah and Angelina Grimké

Answer 4

Lectured to mixed groups
Attacked for their argument
Saw the connection between civil rights for African Americans and civil rights for women

Question 5

Many women began to see themselves

Answer 5

In a similar position to slaves
Legal and social parallels (e.g neither group received advanced schooling)

Question 6

World anti-slavery convention
London 1840

Answer 6

Lucertia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton put behind a curtain because of their gender
Both were delegates at the convention
Neither could speak
Because of their gender

Question 7

1840s

Answer 7

Question of a woman’s space became separated from the abolitionist movement