LI202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coverture, Transcendentalism
10 Mar 2020
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Document signed at the first women"s rights convention to be organized by women. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. Based on the laws of coverture, coverture was a set of laws that said that a married woman"s identity was. Under the law of coverture, a woman"s legal rights were subsumed by her husband"s when she got married. Novels/literature released in reaction to uncle tom"s cabin. Narrative life of frederick douglass, life of a slave girl. 1st person point of view, written by an enslaved person. Nature is the source of all goodness and knowledge, which can be learned through the transcendent experience of the individual. Nature exists for the benefit of the individual. The individual is the highest moral and philosophical authority.
