ENGL 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Margaret Fuller, Fugitive Slave Laws, Slave Narrative
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White women and enslaved people: considered de cient in intellect. Likened to children: overtasked with work. Grudges: might have their children taken away, bother are considered the property of the white men. Neither are allowed to hold property: wanted to change laws to extend legal protections to both groups, not have souls and only masters whose restrictions they should follow is god. Female abolitionist versus male slave trader: women are happy with their current situation. But have no asked: man is the head woman is the heart. The heard and the head work in concert: men argue that women should trust them. They have private relations with women: argues against this. Women argue that they would not leave the home more often than they already do. Signs of change: the abolition movement, more old maids and bachelors. Thursday, november 16, 2017: wollstonecraft and other woman writers, better forms of marriage.
