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Women's Suffrage and Abolitionists

Women's Suffrage and Abolitionists. Harriet Tubbman Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sojouner Truth. Suffrage. suf·frage [ suhf-rij ] noun the right to vote, especially in a political election. Abolitionist. ab·o·li·tion·ist [ ab -uh- lish -uh- nist ] noun

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Women's Suffrage and Abolitionists

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  1. Women's Suffrage and Abolitionists Harriet Tubbman Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sojouner Truth

  2. Suffrage suf·frage [suhf-rij] noun the right to vote, especially in a political election.

  3. Abolitionist ab·o·li·tion·ist [ab-uh-lish-uh-nist] noun (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery

  4. Harriet Tubman • Born: Dorchester County, MD • Died: March 10, 1913, Auburn, NY • Full name: Araminta Harriet Ross • Children: Gertie Davies • Spouse: Nelson Davies (m. 1869–1888), John Tubman (m. 1844–1851) • Parents: Harriet Greene, Ben Ross

  5. Harriet Tubman • Harriet Tubman was born a slave. She escaped through the Underground Railroad. Later, she returned to help other runaway slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. She worked with another abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, who greatly admired her work. She also worked with many Quakers in the Underground Railroad.

  6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Born: November 12, 1815, Johnstown, NY • Died: October 26, 1902, New York City, NY • Full name: Elizabeth Cady • Parents: Daniel Cady, Margaret Livingston Cady • Siblings: Eleazar Cady, Margaret Cady, Harriot Cady

  7. Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a Quaker and an activist. She spoke at the first women's rights convention where she shared her Declaration of Sentiments. Before she became so involved in women's suffrage, she was an abolitionist.

  8. Seneca Falls Convention: • Organized and run by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, among other women, the Seneca Falls Convention was a women's rights convention that took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Attendees of the convention signed the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. The document was mainly written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and listed ways that women had fewer rights than men.

  9. Sojourner Truth • Born: Rifton, NY • Died: November 26, 1883, Battle Creek, MI • Height: 6' 0" (1.83 m) • Buried: Oakhill Cemetery • Parents: James Baumfree, Elizabeth Baumfree

  10. Sojourner Truth • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery. After escaping, she traveled as a speaker and became very important to both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement. She was a very effective speaker even though she was illiterate. Her most famous speech was entitled Ain't I a Woman, which she gave in 1851.

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