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Early 19c Women Property Single Married
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Women Educators Troy, NY Female Seminary Curriculum: math, physics, history, geography Train female teachers Emma Willard (1787-1870) Mary Lyons (1797-1849) 1837 Mt. Holyoke (College) first college for women Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) 1831 Opened school for girls 1834 Opened school for African- American girls
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“ ” Concept “ ” A woman’s “sphere” was in the home (it was a refuge from the cruel world outside) Her role was to “civilize” her husband and family An 1830s MA minister: The power of woman is her dependence. A woman who gives up that dependence on man to become a reformer yields the power God has given her for her protection, and her character becomes unnatural!
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Cult of Domesticity = The inspired women to improve society Angelina GrimkéSarah Grimké Southern Abolitionists Ran a school for females Lucy Stone American Women’s Suffrage Assoc. Edited Woman’s Journal
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Women’s Rights 1840 split in the abolitionist movement over women’s role in it London World Anti-Slavery Convention female delegates denied right to attend convention Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848
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Seneca Falls Declaration
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What It Would Be Like If Ladies Had Their Own Way!
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