WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, William Lloyd Garrison
22 May 2018
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Lecture 10
Feminist Readings
The Grimke Sisters
A Appeal to the Christia Woe of the “outh
• Influential abolitionists
• Part of a slave-holding family in SC
• Moved to Philadelphia and became Quakers
• Angelina sent a letter to William Lloyd Garrison that was later published
• Publicly spoke out against slavery
• Foud a orrelatio etee slaer ad oe’s rights
Seneca Falls Convention
Delaratio of “etiets
• 1st oe’s rights oetio i U“ histor
• Took place in Seneca Falls, NY (300 men & women)
• Written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Meant to be a statement of principles and list of injustices
• Wanted suffrage
Sojourner Truth
Speech (1851)
• African American abolitionist
• Woe’s rights atiist
• Born into slavery in 1797 as Isabella Baumfree
• Escaped from slavery in 1826
• Renamed herself in 1843
• Ditated a eoir, The Narratie of “ojourer Truth: A Norther “lae
• “peeh at Ohio Woe’s Rights Coetio
Radicalesbians
The Woa-Idetified Woa
• Response to Betty Frieda’s oet that lesias ere the laeder eae
• First major lesbian feminist statement
• A group of lesbian feminists
Susan B. Anthony
Sentencing Speech in the Case of United Sates vs. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
• Atiist for oe’s suffrage
• Published a espaper foused o oe’s rights, etitled The Reolutio
• 1872: tried to register to vote in Rochester, NY
• Argued that 14th amendment gave her the right to vote
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