HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Know Nothing, Roger B. Taney
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True womanhood - women should be protected from outside world, be in the home with families. Reform movements seen as an extension of women"s domestic duties. Ironically a way for women to escape the constraints of the private sphere. Northern women made up the majority of these reform groups. Thought that slavery violated christian belief and practice. Women could not get involved in government or party politics, could not even vote. Reform movements gave women access to the public sphere. Would march in parades and speak in public about the issues they were interested in. Had to deal with the financial responsibilities of the business and negotiate with local politicians. Campaigns to redeem prostitutes from sin and moralities for single women. Would attack the hypocritical men that visited prostitutes. Some of the earliest spokespeople for women"s rights. Converted to quaker and drawn to abolition when visiting philadelphia.
