Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement

Thursday, January 27, 2022


Elizabeth Cady Stanton with daughter Harriet (from a daguerreotype, circa 1856)

Read before class:

  • Angelina Grimké, “Letter to Theodore Weld and John Greenleaf Whittier” (CAPCT pp. 5-8)
  • Sarah Grimké, “Letters on the Equality of the Sexes” (CAPCT pp. 8-13)
  • “The Declaration of Sentiments,” Seneca Falls (CAPCT pp. 16-18)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Address to the New York State Legislature” (CAPCT pp. 18-26)
  • Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman? (CP 19)