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http://www.nwhp.org/resources/womens-rights-movement/history-of-the-womens-rights-movement/

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The main goal of the women's rights movement was to give all women the  equal amount of rights that men have. Women  had few legal or political rights, they were not aloud to talk about slavery or vote. After a while some women decided they had had enough of the unfair treatment and decided to do something about it.

Two of the women in the movement where Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Candy Stanton. Both of these women attended the worlds antislavery convention in London in 1840, but they were not aloud to speak. They were very unhappy about that and decided to make a change. They held a convention about women's rights and later cane up with the declaration of sentiments.

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Elizabeth Candy Stanton

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Lucretia Mott

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https://kera.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/abolitionists/#.WrO-q2inHrc

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The abolitionists main goal was to get rid of slavery.  They felt that the US needed liberty and equality for all including slaves.This movement was started in the 1800s and there were blacks and whites that joined in on the movement.

Some of the people in the movement were Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. Harriet Tubman helped with the underground railroad which was a secret escape for slaves to run away. Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave that started his own antislavery news paper called the north star in 1847. Last but not least Sojourner Truth was a former slave that inspired another man to speak out about the evils of slavery.

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Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman, called the "Moses" of her people, known for liberating herself and countless others from the yoke of slavery, is probably the most recognized African American woman of the 19th century. In addition to aiding runaways, she served as a scout, spy, cook and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. Sarah H. Bradford, an antebellum author, recorded the earliest biographies of Tubman's life: S cenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869) and Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1886), although Tubman insisted on a revision of the first to provide readers with a more authentic chronology. Tubman donated the proceeds from these books to raise funds for poor and elderly African Americans. Today, the National Museum of African American History and Culture includes in its collection several artifacts relating to Tubman's life including her shawl, on display in the exhibit "Slavery and Freedom," and a very rare photograph of a young Tubman.

The Rebirth of Harriet Tubman

Born into slavery as Araminta "Minty" Ross, around 1820 or 1822, Tubman grew up on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Her parents, Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross, had a large family consisting of about nine children. We do not know where Tubman fell in the birth order, but we know that she witnessed the sale of at least two of her sisters and it had a lasting impact on her. The harsh realities of slavery haunted her childhood and, as a result, she ran away for the first time at age seven. She reluctantly returned to her enslaver after hiding in a pigpen for four days. During her adolescence Tubman suffered from a head injury that nearly killed her and left visible and psychological scars for the rest of her life.

In 1844, when she was in her early twenties, she married a free black man named John Tubman. Five years later, she made a decision to free herself from slavery leaving her husband behind. Like Sojourner Truth, Tubman's decision was based on faith. Through her self-liberation, she became reborn as "Harriet," perhaps in honor of her mother. She remained a fugitive in the North and Canada until abolition in 1865. Tubman worked with anti-slavery activists and helped others escape slavery. She went back to the South on three occasions to rescue her family and was disappointed in 1851 when her husband refused to join her.

From this point forward she became a conductor in the Underground Railroad and made regular trips to the southern states ushering enslaved African Americans to freedom. She was very active in the 1860s especially during the Civil War. In 1863, she led an armed raid that resulted in freeing more than 700 enslaved people living near the Combahee River in South Carolina. Tubman died in 1913, in her 90s, surrounded by loved ones. She was commemorated at a well-attended stately memorial, with Booker T. Washington delivering the keynote address, and buried with full military honors in Auburn, New York.

Preserving Tubman's Vitality in a Rare Photo

Most of the extant images of Tubman are from her later life when she was in her sixties. However, last year, after a competitive bidding process, the NMAAHC and the Library of Congress jointly purchased this rare photo (a carte-de-visite or small postcard about 3x2 inches) of Tubman.

One of the museum's most recent acquisitions, the image was part of a photo album compiled by abolitionist and teacher Emily Howland. In addition to the photograph of Tubman, taken by photographer Benjamin F. Powelson of Auburn, New York, the album contains pictures of other abolitionists, including Lydia Marie Child. Tubman appears to be in her 40s in the photograph. To date, this is the youngest image of Tubman we are aware of and it allows us to see her as she was in the late 1860s. In this studio photo, Tubman is seated on a wooden chair, facing right, gazing slightly off camera. One of her hands is positioned on the chair, the other is on her lap resting on a full skirt of gingham check. She has on a dark-colored bodice buttoned at the center with heavy ruching on the sleeves. Her hair is parted down the middle and pulled back to the nape of her neck meeting a white lace collar.

A Gift From Queen Victoria

The second object in the NMAAHC collection relating to Tubman is the white silk lace and linen shawl given to her by Queen Victoria of England around 1867, the year of the Queens's Diamond Jubilee. Even though Tubman did not attend this special event, it is believed that Queen Victoria sent the shawl as a gift along with the commemorative medal dignitaries received for attending. According to two scholars, the medal was pinned to Tubman's black dress and she was buried with it.

The Power of Preservation

These artifacts bring us closer than ever before to Tubman as a person and as a global icon. The photograph shows us Tubman as a vital, energetic woman, a woman capable of wading through swamps and braving the threat of slave-catchers to lead others to freedom. The photograph survives because an abolitionist catalogued it along with images of other abolitionists, teachers, and figures.

Think of the shawl: 30 years after Tubman saved so many of her people from a horrible fate, Queen Victoria gifts it to Tubman showing her admiration and respect.

The shawl survives because Tubman's descendants preserved it long enough to present it to a professional bibliophile, Dr. Charles L. Blockson, who thought it worthy to be preserved as a national treasure for the American people. When Dr. Blockson donated the shawl and several items to the museum in 2009, there was not a dry eye in the room as those who attended sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," the song Tubman allegedly sang moments before she took her last breath. Nearly 100 years after her burial, the staff at the museum and everyone present for the donation, felt a special connection to Tubman that day.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. The Museum's nearly 40,000 objects help all Americans see how their stories, their histories, and their cultures are shaped by a people's journey and a nation's story.

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Black History Month: A Rare Photo & Royal Shawl Honor Harriet Tubman's Strength & Bravery

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In our continuing coverage of Black History Month, historian Daina Ramey Berry asks curators from the National Museum of African American History and Culture to share the remarkable stories of important African-American figures. Today see a rare photo of Harriet Tubman in her prime and learn how Queen Victoria honored the courageous freedom fighter with a royal gift.

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Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass was a leader in the abolitionist movement, an early champion of women’s rights and author of ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.’

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Sojourner Truth

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"We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much."

Sojourner Truth will forever be remembered for her "Ain't I a Woman" speech against gender inequality, delivered at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Born a slave in upstate New York, she escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826. But her son Peter, had been sold illegally, and Truth managed to recover him in the first such successful lawsuit against a white man by a black woman.

Along with her freedom, Truth found religion and a calling as missionary and traveling Methodist preacher. Originally named Isabella, she took the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 on instructions, she said, from God. Soon after, she discovered the abolition movement and the leaders of the movement discovered her speaking talents. Illiterate all her life, she relied on a native eloquence and wit to disarm hostile crowds. Her travels were publicized in abolitionist periodicals and she drew a large following. She shared the stage with Frederick B. Douglass and was lauded by Harriet Beecher Stowe and other abolitionist leaders. Eventually she joined a Massachusetts education and industry association that supported a broad reform agenda, including women's rights and pacifism. Throughout the 1850s she made dozens, even hundreds of speeches, including at the 1853 suffragist "mob convention" in New York City.

In 1857 she moved to Michigan, and later spent time recruiting black soldiers into the Union army during the Civil War. She helped raise donations of food and gifts to support African-American regiments. And after the war, she tried, unsuccessfully, to help former slaves and soldiers secure land grants from the federal government. She visited the White House in 1864 where she was received by President Abraham Lincoln.

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"We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much." Sojourner Truth will forever be remembered for her "Ain't I a Woman" speech against gender inequality, delivered at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Born a slave in upstate New York, she escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826.