1. Literature, Art and Abolition

2. Women of the 19th Century Not allowed to vote
They could be beaten by husbands
Once they were married, a woman couldn’t own property
Stereotyped as physically and mentally weak and the keepers of society

3. Women of the 19th Century Reformers – white well to do
Lucretia Mott – fought for anti slavery, but wasn’t recognized at the London Anti-slavery conference
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – left out obey in marriage vows, fought for woman’s suffrage
Susan B. Anthony – woman’s rights
Elizabeth Blackwell – 1st female graduate of medical college
Margaret Fuller – edited a journal

4. Women of the 19th Century Reformers cont.
Sarah and Angelina Grimke – anti – slavery
Lucy Stone – didn’t take her husband’s name
Amelia Bloomer – wore short skirt and “bloomers”

5. The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention, 1848

6. The first signatures on the Declaration of Sentiments.
“. . . The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she has no voice. . .”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
The Declaration of Sentiments
The first signatures on the Declaration of Sentiments.

7. The radical abolition movement had the greatest impact on women’s rights.

8. Women in the abolition movement recognized parallels between the legal condition of slaves and that of women.

9. Utopian Societies New Harmony – Robert Owen 1825
Brook Farm – Massachusetts, transcendentalism, “living plain and thinking high”
Oneida – New York, complex marriage
Shakers – religious community, prohibited marriage and sex…it didn’t last long

10. New Harmony

11. New Harmony

12. Brook Farm

13. Brook Farm

14. Oneida

15. Oneida

16. Oneida

17. Shakers

18. Shakers

19. Literature and Art Built Nationalism Why? Hudson River School
totally unique style of painting, focused on wild American landscape.
Captured the “American Pioneering Spirit” (Manifest Destiny).
“Landscape Painting”.

20. Literature Romanticism Transcendentalism
Writing style that focused on: emotion, religion, man v. nature
Examples:
Washington Irving- Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle- 1st American Folktales.
Nathaniel Hawthorne- Scarlet Letter
James Fennimore Cooper- Last of the Mohicans
Edgar Allen Poe- The Raven
Writing Style and Philosophy focused on: emotion, promoted self-reliance (individualism)
Examples:
Ralph Waldo Emerson- Essayist and Poet
Henry David Thoreau- Walden and Civil Disobedience (promoted nonviolent protest, MLK Jr. and Gandhi)

21. Slavery in the North and South
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Preacher
Killed 60 people in VA (mostly women and children)
Payback was bloody
This made Southern slaveholders scared

22. American Colonization Society
Return African-Americans to Africa

23. William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator – anti slavery newspaper

24. Sojourner Truth
Free African-American who fought for emancipation and women’s rights

25. Frederick Douglass
Former slave
Published the North Star newspaper

26. Slavery – “The Peculiar Institution”
North
South
Made $ off slavery
Made $ off slavery

27. Free Soil Party
Wanted to stop the expansion of slavery in the west