The market in the colonies was not large enough to sustain itself (like most). This was transformed into the sixteenth grievance of the Declaration of Independence, which states that the colonies were declaring independence from the Empire “for cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.” Similarly, feminists and suffrage leaders declared that men had done the same to them. They believed that they could do a job just as good as a man and deserve equal pay and benefits, so they included in the Seneca Falls Declaration that “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.” The difference in the two is that colonists didn’t argue that they could not own land because free men already could, and that’s all that mattered at the time. The women of Seneca Falls disagree, take another look at that idea, and make their
The market in the colonies was not large enough to sustain itself (like most). This was transformed into the sixteenth grievance of the Declaration of Independence, which states that the colonies were declaring independence from the Empire “for cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.” Similarly, feminists and suffrage leaders declared that men had done the same to them. They believed that they could do a job just as good as a man and deserve equal pay and benefits, so they included in the Seneca Falls Declaration that “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.” The difference in the two is that colonists didn’t argue that they could not own land because free men already could, and that’s all that mattered at the time. The women of Seneca Falls disagree, take another look at that idea, and make their