1. Abolition and Women’s Rights
and Suffrage
Suffrage - the right to vote in political
elections
2. Abolitionists Protest Slavery
• By 1804 most Northern
States had abolished
Slavery.
• By 1807 Congress Banned
the importation of Slaves
• Abolitionists (people who
worked to end slavery)
called for a law ending
slavery in the South
where the economy
depended on slave labor
3. Abolitionist cont…
1829 – Pamphlets urging slave revolts appear in the
South. Author poisoned
1831 – White abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
publishes abolitionist newspaper “Liberator”-Hated
1835 – Mob of slavery supporters in Boston try to
hang Garrison, saved by the mayor
1841 Pres. John Q. Adams successfully defends a
group of enslaved Africans who rebelled on slave ship
Amistad
4. Famous abolitionists
• Frederick Douglass- former Slave and
journalist who spoke publicly against slavery
• Sojourner Truth- former slave and feminist
who spoke to thousands about slavery
• Harriett Tubman- “Conductor” on the
Underground Railroad (a series of escape
routes and safe houses provided by
abolitionists). She made 19 different trips
including one to rescue her family.
5.
6. Fight for Women’s rights
• Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
were leading abolitionists who suffered
gender discrimination when they attended the
World Anti-Slavery Conference in 1840.
As a result they planned a convention to discuss
equality for women
7. Seneca Falls Convention 1848
• Seneca Falls, NJ- World’s first convention on
the rights of women.
• Attended by more than 300, including
Frederick Douglass
• Passed many “resolutions” (statements of
opinion) asserting rights for women
• Suffrage (voting rights) only passed b/c
Stanton and Douglass fought for it.
(many thought people would laugh)
8. Susan B. Anthony
• Susan B. Anthony built “Women’s rights” into a
national movement.
“There will never be complete equality until women
themselves help make laws and elect lawmakers”-
S.B.Anthony
• In 1839 Mississippi passed a law that allowed
women to keep their property and wages (before
this their husbands got it all)
• By 1865 29 states have similar laws.
She grew up Quaker and was also a temperance
(no alcohol) advocate.