2. Sojourner Truth – 1 of 3
Real name is “Isabella
Baumfree”
Slave in NY state
Husband beaten to death
Forced to marry & bear
children to a diff. slave
Escapes a year before NY
outlaws slavery
First black woman to win in
court – sues former owner
for rights to her son
3. Sojourner Truth – 2 of 3
Garrison prints her
autobiography
Very bold woman – once
showed her “lady parts” to
someone who accused her
of being a man
Goes on a speaking tour
Most famous speech is “Ain’t
I A Woman?”
4. S. Truth – “Ain’t I A Woman” Speech
That man over there says that women need to be helped into
carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place
everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-
puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as
much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did
your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From
God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the
world upside down all alone, these women together ought to
be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now
they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
5. Lucretia Mott – 1 of 3
PA Teacher & Quaker
Minister
Began as abolitionist
Joined women’s rights
movement after:
1st Learning men paid 3x
as much
2nd Being segregated at
World’s Anti-Slavery
conference in Britain
6. Lucretia Mott – 2 of 3
Met Garrison & Elizabeth
Cady Stanton at World’s
Anti-Slavery convention
The 2 would create the first
women’s rights convention –
Seneca Falls, 1848
While there, Frederick
Douglass became a strong
supporter of women’s rights
8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 1 of 3
NY Activist
Dad a judge and Congressman
who “taught her like a man”
Graduated tops at her school,
but not allowed to go to college
b/c she was a woman
Married & traveled US
Met & inspired by major
abolitionists and women’s rights
activists
You name them, she met them!
9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 2 of 3
Moved to Seneca Falls in 1847 for
husband’s poor health
Bored, so begins to read & write
Inspired by TJ’s Dec. of
Independence; writes
Declaration of Rights &
Sentiments for women’s rights
After Civil War, will oppose black
voting rights because women
were EXCLUDED
Will inspire Susan B. Anthony
11. Susan B. Anthony – 1 of 3
NY Teacher & Quaker
Family was wealthy; lost it all in
Van Buren’s Panic of 1837
Befriends F. Douglass in 1847
Met E.C. Stanton in 1851
Began wearing fancy dresses,
but stopped b/c men focused
more on that than her ideas
Her speaking at 1853 teachers’
convention was huge issue
12. Susan B. Anthony – 2 of 3
Would break from abolitionist
movement when she saw sexism
in male abolitionists
Formed the Women’s
Temperance Movement
Arrested for voting in Election of
1872 (because she was a
woman)
Would have the legacy of
organizing the core of the
women’s rights movement