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Literature, Art and Abolition

Literature, Art and Abolition. Women of the 19 th Century. Not allowed to vote They could be beaten by husbands Once they were married, a woman couldn’t own property Stereotyped as physically and mentally weak and the keepers of society. Women of the 19 th Century.

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Literature, Art and Abolition

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  1. Literature, Art and Abolition

  2. Women of the 19th Century • Not allowed to vote • They could be beaten by husbands • Once they were married, a woman couldn’t own property • Stereotyped as physically and mentally weak and the keepers of society

  3. Women of the 19th Century • Reformers – white well to do • Lucretia Mott – fought for anti slavery, but wasn’t recognized at the London Anti-slavery conference • Elizabeth Cady Stanton – left out obey in marriage vows, fought for woman’s suffrage • Susan B. Anthony – woman’s rights • Elizabeth Blackwell – 1st female graduate of medical college • Margaret Fuller – edited a journal

  4. Women of the 19th Century • Reformers cont. • Sarah and Angelina Grimke – anti – slavery • Lucy Stone – didn’t take her husband’s name • Amelia Bloomer – wore short skirt and “bloomers”

  5. The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention, 1848

  6. “. . . The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. . . . He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she has no voice. . .” Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Declaration of Sentiments The first signatures on the Declaration of Sentiments.

  7. The radical abolition movement had the greatest impact on women’s rights.

  8. Women in the abolition movement recognized parallels between the legal condition of slaves and that of women.

  9. Utopian Societies • New Harmony – Robert Owen 1825 • Brook Farm – Massachusetts, transcendentalism, “living plain and thinking high” • Oneida – New York, complex marriage • Shakers – religious community, prohibited marriage and sex…it didn’t last long

  10. New Harmony

  11. New Harmony

  12. Brook Farm

  13. Brook Farm

  14. Oneida

  15. Oneida

  16. Oneida

  17. Shakers

  18. Shakers

  19. Literature and Art • Built Nationalism • Why? • Hudson River School • totally unique style of painting, focused on wild American landscape. • Captured the “American Pioneering Spirit” (Manifest Destiny). • “Landscape Painting”.

  20. Literature Romanticism Transcendentalism Writing Style and Philosophy focused on: emotion, promoted self-reliance (individualism) Examples: Ralph Waldo Emerson- Essayist and Poet Henry David Thoreau- Walden and Civil Disobedience (promoted nonviolent protest, MLK Jr. and Gandhi) • Writing style that focused on: emotion, religion, man v. nature • Examples: • Washington Irving- Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle- 1st American Folktales. • Nathaniel Hawthorne- Scarlet Letter • James Fennimore Cooper- Last of the Mohicans • Edgar Allen Poe- The Raven

  21. Slavery in the North and South • Nat Turner’s Rebellion • Preacher • Killed 60 people in VA (mostly women and children) • Payback was bloody • This made Southern slaveholders scared

  22. American Colonization Society • Return African-Americans to Africa

  23. William Lloyd Garrison • The Liberator – anti slavery newspaper

  24. Sojourner Truth • Free African-American who fought for emancipation and women’s rights

  25. Frederick Douglass • Former slave • Published the North Star newspaper

  26. Slavery – “The Peculiar Institution” North South Made $ off slavery • Made $ off slavery

  27. Free Soil Party • Wanted to stop the expansion of slavery in the west

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