Essays Tagged: "World Anti-Slavery Convention"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

o sex. I graduated in 1833 and returned to my parent's home, and this is when I entered the world of reform. While visiting my cousin, Gerrit Smith (the abolitionist) in Peterboro, New York, I ... relationship. We honeymooned in London where Henry combined business with pleasure and attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention. It was in London that I met Lucretia Mott, when both of us were banis ...

(7 pages) 202 0 4.5 Mar/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

American Women in History

ociety. In 1840 they married and Elizabeth asked that the word "obey" be omitted. They attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England on their honeymoon. Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucr ... ds of local, state, and federal laws that had limited women's legal status and social roles. In the world of work, large numbers of women have entered professions, trades and businesses of every kind. ...

(8 pages) 132 2 5.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Feminism by Minda Wu

husetts in 1620. Yet, men had been there since the early 1600's. Women were brought over to the New World when they realized that women did have a function in life and that they needed that in order t ... men also played an important role in the anti-slavery movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 and was outraged when several women were denied of ...

(9 pages) 71 1 4.6 Apr/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Womens Suffrage

omen or for the propose of integrating men and into one environment. In 1840 in London, England the World's Anti-Slavery Convention was held and women were not allowed to join in, this infuriated two ...

(3 pages) 53 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies