Depict an image of America back in the mid 1800's being treated unequally and your voice not being heard. This is same scenario happened to a woman and leader named Susan B Anthony. Susan B. Anthony is a woman that was arrested in 1872, because she went to vote illegally by being a woman. Susan B. Anthony was an activist during 1872. Anthony believed that regardless of gender or race, you as an American citizen should have the right to vote. After Anthony’s arrest, she gave a speech about her illegally casting her vote and the point she was trying to make by voting. In Susan B. Anthony’s speech, she states “We formed a Union not to give the blessing of liberty, but to secure them.” to elaborate further on this statement, Anthony means that
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So yeah she had some issues. Another fact about her is that she was a lifelong friend of Frederick Douglass. Since her family was part of an antislavery circle earlier in Rochester, they had met each other there. Ever since that she had been supporting on resolving the issue of Black male suffrage in 1860 and partnered up with Douglass on resolving it. But on the day Douglass died he had sat next to Anthony on the platform of a woman’s rights meeting in Washington D.C. During the split over the 15th amendment granting suffrage to black males, Douglass tried convincing her to support the ratification but Anthony disliked the word male in the amendment therefore for the first time she disagreed with him. Back in the day Anthony surprisingly was against abortions. But she blamed men for them. She had stated that, “ child-murder was part of an editorial asserting that laws attempting to punish women for having abortions would be unlikely to suppress abortions, and asserting that many women seeking abortions were doing so out of desperation, not casually.” She had also believed that men had the idea that a woman’s body didn’t belong to her and she couldn’t make decisions on it and that it was the men’s duty to make those
So yeah she had some issues. Another fact about her is that she was a lifelong friend of Frederick Douglass. Since her family was part of an antislavery circle earlier in Rochester, they had met each other there. Ever since that she had been supporting on resolving the issue of Black male suffrage in 1860 and partnered up with Douglass on resolving it. But on the day Douglass died he had sat next to Anthony on the platform of a woman’s rights meeting in Washington D.C. During the split over the 15th amendment granting suffrage to black males, Douglass tried convincing her to support the ratification but Anthony disliked the word male in the amendment therefore for the first time she disagreed with him. Back in the day Anthony surprisingly was against abortions. But she blamed men for them. She had stated that, “ child-murder was part of an editorial asserting that laws attempting to punish women for having abortions would be unlikely to suppress abortions, and asserting that many women seeking abortions were doing so out of desperation, not casually.” She had also believed that men had the idea that a woman’s body didn’t belong to her and she couldn’t make decisions on it and that it was the men’s duty to make those