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This 4 page paper examines pertinent writings from the late 1800's to understand the relationship between the anti-slavery movement and the women's rights movement. This paper asserts that each helped the other succeed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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for spurring the womens rights movement. Evidence for this exists in a variety of sources, most notably through the letters and speeches of the era, which reflect the changing
perceptions and attitudes about gender and race. For instance, the beginning of the womens rights movement, should it be required
to trace it back to a single event, could be said to have started in 1840 in response to the rejection of female delegates at the Worlds Anti-Slavery Convention in
London, which occurred June 12 through June 23 of that year. We better understand this event because of the personal correspondence of Daniel OConnell, who was an Irish member
of British Parliament. In the case of OConnell, it is evident from his letter that he supported womens rights: My mature consideration of the entire subject convinces me
of the right of the female delegates to take their seats in the Convention, and of the injustice of excluding them. I do not care to add, that I deem
its also impolitic; because that exclusion being unjust, it ought not to have taken place, even if it could also be politic (Daniel OConnell to Lucretia Mott, 1840).
In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, New
York (Proceedings of the Womans Rights Convention, 1848). There were a number of speakers at this convention, among them Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who came to be a pioneer in
the womens rights movement. Essentially, Stanton asserted that women alone were in a position to speak about the plight of women, since men, including those like OConnell who supported
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