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Women were not included in the political community at all. As a result of the Second Great Awakening (early 19th century), women began protesting the traditional roles of stay at home life and maintenance that had been thrust upon them previously.

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The Second Great Awakening led to religious reform that convinced women to stand for the abolition movement and take care of othe outcasts in society. These reforms led women to realize their own shackles and subservience to men in society. As women began to publically  share their ideas against slavery, many men hated that 1) women were speaking in public and were taking steps to want a political opinion and 2) they were openly opposing slavery.
Women desperately needed to overcome attacks from speaking in public and pursuing equal relationships in marriage where traditional stay at home mom and working dad roles were sometimes reversed, since women began working in textile mills. Some folks were threatened by women in the work force, so people like Catherine Beecher encouraged women to practice greater control over their lives with ‘domestic feminism’ which convicted women that staying at home and being a good housewife gave women equal power in the world from home, but not in the world like men had. Some women formed groups such as the Female Moral Reform Society which visited brothels and converted prostitutes as a way of taking charge as women. Other women preferred to fight for legally protected rights as women, like right of custody over children and arguing with this who still considered women inferior based in the Bible.

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Born in New York around 1797, she was born into slavery. In 1826, she escaped to freedom with her daughter, who was an infant at the time. Her life was devoted to abolitionist cause and recruiting black troops for the Union Army. In 1844, she joined the Northampton Associaiton of Education and Industry in Northampton, MA. This group was founded by abolitionist and supported a broad reform agenda including pacifism and women’s rights. Her speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” which she gave at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851, focused on women’s rights.

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Although the women’s labor movement that was attempted in the 1830s with the rise of industrialization was unsuccessful, women believed they deserved better working conditions and better pay

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In 1840, Women, hindered by me not not allowing them to speak at the World Anti Slavery Convention, began planning for a convention that would significantly fuel the women’s rights movement in years to come. The Seneca Falls convention in New York was finally held in New York led by Mott and Stanton.

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Women started and joined abolition groups

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Women wanted the same rights as men

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The Seneca Falls Convention Explained: US History Review

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Uploaded on the 167th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, we take a look at the big idea of women's rights in the 19th century as well as some interesting facts about the convention. Read the Declaration of Sentiments http://www.womensrightsfriends.org/pdfs/1848_declaration_of_sentiments.pdf Visit HipHughes Online www.hiphughes.com