A promiscuous meeting
Title
A promiscuous meeting
Description
Day 1 was for women only. Lucretia Mott ran the meeting; ElizCadyStanton presented the Declaration for discussion & amendment. On the 2d day she presented it to the mixed crowd, Mott’s husband James in the chair. (The organizers had hesitated to chair a mixed mtng.) #SenecaFalls
Though Lucretia was a well-known abolitionist, women rarely spoke in public, esp. in front of men. Female anti-slavery societies organized by white and Black women throughout the 1830s were attacked for the ‘promiscuity’ of women speaking to mixed-sex audiences. More tomorrow!
Though Lucretia was a well-known abolitionist, women rarely spoke in public, esp. in front of men. Female anti-slavery societies organized by white and Black women throughout the 1830s were attacked for the ‘promiscuity’ of women speaking to mixed-sex audiences. More tomorrow!
Creator
Daily Suffragist
Source
Date
22/09/2019
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Citation
Daily Suffragist, “A promiscuous meeting,” Daily Suffragist, accessed April 18, 2024, https://dailysuffragist.omeka.net/items/show/55.