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I liked this essay by Julie Roy Jeffrey. I liked how she talked about the plain, average woman being a big part of the abolition movement. William Lloyd Garrison Jr said that the "leaders would have been powerless" without their help. Jeffrey talks about individual movements that were created after the national antislavery effort was ended in the mid Nineteenth century. She also mentioned how the involvement in this effort put women outside their sphere like we talked about in class. The end of the essay mentions several women who were a part of this movement that I think was important to include. -Amy Van Ness | I liked this essay by Julie Roy Jeffrey. I liked how she talked about the plain, average woman being a big part of the abolition movement. William Lloyd Garrison Jr said that the "leaders would have been powerless" without their help. Jeffrey talks about individual movements that were created after the national antislavery effort was ended in the mid Nineteenth century. She also mentioned how the involvement in this effort put women outside their sphere like we talked about in class. The end of the essay mentions several women who were a part of this movement that I think was important to include. -Amy Van Ness | ||
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| + | I also really liked this essay. One part that especially interests me is when Julie Roy Jeffrey discussed the ways in which the abolitionist movement affected women's "self-perception and self-image". She talks about how the movement instilled in women the necessity of learning to "reason and to argue", which completely goes against society's expectation that women be submissive and passive. I also feel like in many ways the movement, along with other reform and moral movements of the period, may have given some women greater confidence in themselves and their abilities, as well as more assurance and self-assertiveness. On the other hand, some women could have felt as Sarah Ernst did, when she stated that the "sleepless nights and anxious distressed days" she was spending in commitments to the abolitionist movement were "not calculated to give a healthy constitution" to her newborn baby. I wonder how women such as Sarah balanced their roles as mothers and wives with their duties and commitments to the various movements? -Allison Godart | ||
== Nancy Isenberg’s “Women’s Rights and the Politics of Church and State in Antebellum America,” (1998) == | == Nancy Isenberg’s “Women’s Rights and the Politics of Church and State in Antebellum America,” (1998) == | ||
