Susan B. Anthony And The Feminist Movement

Susan B. Anthony started with abolitionism since the age at 16. She was part of Underground Railroad jointly with Harriet Tubman. Jointly with Stanton she refused to support the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments that enfranchisement black man but not women. Her public activities for women’s suffrage were conducted jointly with that of Stanton. Both they were internationally very active particularly in Europe, meeting with activist of European women’s movements. Her advantage over Stanton was that she was unmarried and thus had the legal status of “feme sole” and could freely sign contract and materials for meetings as well as traveling overseas often. When a journalist asked her why she never married she answered “I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealth he became a pet and a doll. Just think, had I married at twenty, I would have been a drudge or a doll for fifty-nine years. Think of it!”. (https://archive.org/stream/lifeandworksusa01harpgoog#page/n399/mode/2up , p.860) 5032 …show more content…
The history of feminist movement in the USA was directly linked to the abolitionist movement, while white women wanted to escape the slavery in household and to come out in public; they found that they have joint interest in the black women abolitionist fight. “For a quarter of a century, the two movements, to free the slave and to liberate the woman, nourished and strengthen one another”, Aptheker (1982:10, 11) овде