White Women and the Abolitionist Movement
“Women struggled to enter the all –male professional schools. Harriet Hunt, a women physician who began to practice in 1835, was twice refused admission to Harvard Medical School.” For the longest time, women struggled to find their place in society due to enduring gender discrimination. Women experienced being treated unfairly and were expected to hold numerous culture expectations such as pursuing low-grade job professions. White women felt they could empathize with the African American people undergoing slavery, especially black women. This connection led to white women and their interests in the abolitionist movement.
First, an organic kinship had developed between black women and white women that steered white women in a direction to being more proactive. White women despised being relegated to a substandard position in a universe controlled by men. Commonly enough, African American women were experiencing similar controversies but much harsher. African American women were being subjugated for not only their gender, but their skin color as well. During this period, white women were seen as invisible in …show more content…
“Eighteen married women came over on the Mayflower. Three were pregnant, and one if them gave birth to a dead child before they landed. Childbirth and sickness plagued the women; by the spring, only four of those eighteen women were still alive.” These women were not slaves but wives of the early colonists. These were cruel and unusual circumstances taking place that black slaves were undergoing as well. Sojourner Truth, a black abolitionist speaks at a women’s rights convention and says, “I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no mean could head me.” Truth promotes that thinking and discussing politics are easy next to the tasks she’s had to do. White women related to Truth’s beliefs and
“Women struggled to enter the all –male professional schools. Harriet Hunt, a women physician who began to practice in 1835, was twice refused admission to Harvard Medical School.” For the longest time, women struggled to find their place in society due to enduring gender discrimination. Women experienced being treated unfairly and were expected to hold numerous culture expectations such as pursuing low-grade job professions. White women felt they could empathize with the African American people undergoing slavery, especially black women. This connection led to white women and their interests in the abolitionist movement.
First, an organic kinship had developed between black women and white women that steered white women in a direction to being more proactive. White women despised being relegated to a substandard position in a universe controlled by men. Commonly enough, African American women were experiencing similar controversies but much harsher. African American women were being subjugated for not only their gender, but their skin color as well. During this period, white women were seen as invisible in …show more content…
“Eighteen married women came over on the Mayflower. Three were pregnant, and one if them gave birth to a dead child before they landed. Childbirth and sickness plagued the women; by the spring, only four of those eighteen women were still alive.” These women were not slaves but wives of the early colonists. These were cruel and unusual circumstances taking place that black slaves were undergoing as well. Sojourner Truth, a black abolitionist speaks at a women’s rights convention and says, “I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no mean could head me.” Truth promotes that thinking and discussing politics are easy next to the tasks she’s had to do. White women related to Truth’s beliefs and