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Female Anti-Slavery Convention in New York
The National Female Anti-Slavery Convention in 1837 was the 1st convention where women discussed women's rights. Delegates traveled to NYC for 4 days of debate. Lucretia Mott was there, and so were the Grimke sisters. Ira V. Brown describes their…
Tags: Lucretia Mott, New York City, Slavery
New Jersey stood alone
Everything is legal in New Jersey. Including, til 1807 voting by white women who owned property & were unmarried. If married, their legal existence (and property) disappeared into their husband. If Black, they were likely enslaved: NJ clung to…
Tags: New Jersey, Slavery, State Spotlight
The Freeman
Mary Ann Shadd Cary edited The Freeman in Canada. She moved there in 1850s to protest Fugitive Slave Act. Post-Civil War she returned & entered Howard Law School at age 46, the only woman in her class. More ahead on her work w/Frederick Douglass,…
Sarah Remond & mother
Nancy Lenox & Sarah Parker Remond were mother/daughter free Black women & leading abolitionists. Sarah 👇 traveled & lectured on the sexual abuse of enslaved women. In 1853 she sued & won $500 after being ejected from a Boston opera house.…
Tags: Black Suffragists, Boston, Slavery
American Moses
The original Moses didn’t get to the Promised Land, but at least he didn’t have to fight for his pension. His successor, Harriet Tubman, did. (Thread) #Suffrage100 #AfricanAmerican #Harriet #KnowYour19th Harriet is most famous for her 13 daring…
Tags: Civil War, Harriet Tubman, Slavery
Another Harriet you should know
Yes, they had a bake sale.
Black & white men & women didn’t share public space in the 1830s. Female Anti-Slavery Societies were an exception, esp Philadelphia’s. It was founded by Lucretia Mott & 17 other women, inc. Harriet Forten Purvis, her…
Black & white men & women didn’t share public space in the 1830s. Female Anti-Slavery Societies were an exception, esp Philadelphia’s. It was founded by Lucretia Mott & 17 other women, inc. Harriet Forten Purvis, her…
Tags: 1851, Jews, Lucretia Mott, Slavery
Law school by tweet: Minor v. Happersett
Law School by Tweet: Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875) Over and over in the 19th century, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and women asked the Court to find that the promises of the Constitution applied to us too. Over and over the Court…
Tags: 14th Amendment, Law School by Tweet, Slavery
Don't get in bed with racists
At the turn of the century, leading white suffragists deluded themselves into thinking that colluding with racists would help their cause. Spoiler alert: it didn’t.Thread. The new generation of suffrage leaders - with the blessing of the old guard -…