Women of importance between 1800-1860?

women and what they did to be considered in playing an important place or role in american history between 1800-1860
Women of importance between 1800-1860?
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of uncle tom%26#039;s cabin. This book made many people oppose slavery and in a way helped bring about the Civil War.
Women of importance between 1800-1860?
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Reply:Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (Fought for women%26#039;s rights; Seneca Falls Convetion 1848)


Harriet Beecher Stowe (Wrote Uncle Tom%26#039;s Cabin)


Soujourner Truth (Abolitionist, spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention. She gave a famous speech there, asking %26quot;Ain%26#039;t I a Woman?%26quot;)


Elizabeth Blackwell (First woman physicians in the US)


Dolley Madison (Wife of 4th President James Madison--influential hostess in Washington, saved painting of George Washington when the British burned the White House in 1814)
Reply:Many women in the early 19th century were very active in the Abolitionist movement. The first female anti-slavery lecturers in the USA were Sarah and Angelina Grimke, who were also early feminists. When Angelina married another anti-slavery lecturer, Theodore Weld, in 18 38, the word %26#039;obey%26#039; was omitted from the marriage service. Many women active in the abolitionist movement subsequently became active in the campaign for women%26#039;s suffrage.





In 1833, Prudence Crandall, a schoolteacher, made a brave attempt to open a school for coloured girls in Canterbury, with the aim of giving them the same genteel education available to white girls. Local residents were outraged, and Crandall and her pupils were subject to torrades of abuse, intimidation and actual violence. the school was eventually destroyed by rioters. After the war, Connecticut voted to give its black citizens the right to vote, with Canterbury leading the way. Crandall had not been able to carry through her plan to educate young black women, but as her old friend Samuel May said, she had been succesful in teaching her neighbours.





In 1833, Lydia Maria Child published a book called An Appeal In Favour of That Class of Americans Called Africans. One of the first antislavery books to be published in America, it was also one of the boldest, arguing that the races should be able to mix freely when traveling, at the theatre, in church, and when choosing marital partners. Child, along with the Grimke sisters, was unusual even among abolitonists in her belief in the integration and equality of the races.





It could be very dangerous being an abolitonist, between 1834 and 1837, there were at least 157 mob anti-abolition actions in the north. At one Boston aboltionist meeting where the meeting provoked a riot, a woman called Maria Weston Chapman led the audinece out through the angry mob in pairs, black and white together. %26quot;If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere%26quot; she said.





1848 was the year Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organised the Seneca Falls Convention to present their case for women%26#039;s rights. elizabeth Cady Stanton and susan B. Antony were leaders of the women%26#039;s rights movements throughout the rest of the 19th century. Lucy Stone, another influential early feminist, was also a speaker for the anti-slavery society, she travelled the country during the early 1850s, often swaying hostile audiences with her eloquence.





Dorothea Dix was an important social reformer who improved the appalling conditions of mental patients in the USA during the 1840s. Her priorities were to alleviate conditons for the mentally ill by having instituitons for them seperate from criminals and by having ropes and chains removed. She played a direct role in the founding of 32 mental hospitals and was inspirational in founding many others. She called New jersey%26#039;s first mental hospital at Trenton %26quot;my firstborn child.%26quot;





In 1849, the remarkable Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery, and returned many times to the south to rescue fellow slaves. She was an expert at disguise and at putting her pursuers off the scent. She appeared as an old woman, or a vagabond, or a mentally disturbed man. On one occasion, when she saw a former owner coming towards her she loosed several chickens at a market and pretended to be chasing after them as she scurried by unnnoticed. Another time, when she realised she had been tracked to a railroad station, she calmly boarded a southbound train, guessing correctly that no one would suspect a black woman traveling deeper into slave territory. %26quot;I was the conductor of the underground railway for eight years and I can say what most conductors can%26#039;t say - I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger%26quot; she said.





1850 was the year Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to qualify as a doctor at an American medical school. it was also the year in which Harriet Beecher Stowe published %26#039;Uncle Tom%26#039;s Cabin%26#039; probably the most influential novel of the 19th century. it%26#039;s impact on the anti-slavery campaign was huge.





Although male ex-slaves were common on the lecture trail, Sojourner Truth was the only female ex-slave who pursued a career as a public speaker. Tall, with a low, powerful voice, she became celebrated for her direct and colourful language. Addressing a women%26#039;s rights convention in Ohio, she said %26quot;I have heard much about the sexes being equal. I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can get at it. I am as strong as any man that is now. As for intellect, all I can say is, if a woman have a pint and a man a quart - why can%26#039;t she have her little pint full?%26quot;