CGS 2A Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: Manual Labour, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• School: UCSD
• Department: Critical Gender Studies
• Course: CGS 2A
• Professor: Amanda Marina Yoland Martin Sandido

Document Summary

First wave feminism without white women: 1876 susan b. anthony, elizabeth cady stanton, matilda joselyn gage wrote the history of. American suffrage: only one woc was named, sojourner truth. First wave 1848 (seneca falls)-1920 (19th amendment: abolitionist movement mobilizing women, need for both racial and gender equality, 1937 anti-slavery collection of women first time women arguing for women"s rights and against slavery. Free black people are only slightly better off than slaves. If free black people campaigned for white people seeing them in a better light and for more education, prejudice against them would diminish. "though black their skins as shades of night, their hearts are pure, their souls are white: white people don"t want to perform manual/servant labor. If she had to be a servant, she would rather die. Few black people can truly advance into the upper classes of society.