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== Frances Ellen (Watkins) Harper, 1866 Woman’s Rights convention == | == Frances Ellen (Watkins) Harper, 1866 Woman’s Rights convention == | ||
| − | "We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." Strong words that people still need to come terms with today. I really enjoyed reading her speech. I feel so much more for the black woman of the time because they were fighting a double fight: race and gender rights were needed. Bringing up the "wrongs" done to the blacks by the whites was a powerful message, especially when she contrasted it to the "rights" that the "white women" keep takling about. - christine | + | '''"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." Strong words that people still need to come terms with today.''' I really enjoyed reading her speech. I feel so much more for the black woman of the time because they were fighting a double fight: race and gender rights were needed. Bringing up the "wrongs" done to the blacks by the whites was a powerful message, especially when she contrasted it to the "rights" that the "white women" keep takling about. - christine |
| − | I felt deeply sorry for Frances Harper, not only was she a woman but also a black widow who inherited the role of provider for four children, only one of whom she was the true mother to. She quickly points out that if she was a man, she would not have been violated in the same terms and would have been as seen as more equal before law. I think her message of saying giving women the right to vote would not cure all injustice against women, and race would be a big factor. She knows the terms of the country and understands that while big steps are needed the country would work a step at a time to achieve equality. -Megan W. | + | '''I felt deeply sorry for Frances Harper,''' not only was she a woman but also a black widow who inherited the role of provider for four children, only one of whom she was the true mother to. She quickly points out that if she was a man, she would not have been violated in the same terms and would have been as seen as more equal before law. I think her message of saying giving women the right to vote would not cure all injustice against women, and race would be a big factor. She knows the terms of the country and understands that while big steps are needed the country would work a step at a time to achieve equality. -Megan W. |
== Shoe women of Lynn, MA, 1874 == | == Shoe women of Lynn, MA, 1874 == | ||
