Woman’s Suffrage and the Abolitionist Movement

1. Woman’s Suffrage and the Abolitionist Movement Lesson 5 Suffrage Unit

2. The beginnings… • Suffrage and the woman’s sphere- slavery is not moral! • Abolitionist leaders like Lucy Stone, the Grimke Sisters, and Susan B. Anthony advocated for universal suffrage • 1837- First National Female Anti-Slavery Society Convention held in NYC

3. Important Women in the Abolitionist Cause • 1851 Sojourner Truth gave a speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Ohio “Ain’t I a Woman?” • 1852 Connecticut’s Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin • This novel changed the attitudes of many Americans about slavery • www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/

4. The Causes are linked • Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are friends and political allies • 1866 the American Equal Rights Association is formed to promote universal suffrage for all genders and races • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are key in this organization’s founding • Frederick Douglass is a regular speaker at women’s suffrage events

5. The divide: What happened? • 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment specified citizens and voters as males • The wording of this amendment upset suffragists and split the party into two factions • NWSA was started by Anthony and Cady Stanton in NYC • Stone and Julia Ward Howe started AWSA in Boston

6. Men before women • The fifteenth Amendment enfranchises black men but excludes all women, white and black • NWSA disagrees and Anthony makes some remarks against black men that ends her friendship with Douglass • Half of suffragists believe that black men needed the vote more than white women • “It is the Negro’s hour”- what does this mean? Do you agree?