ENLIGHTENMENT THINKING OF WOMEN AND sLAVERY

SLAVERY

• Parliament passed William Wilberforce’s bill to end the slave trade.
• Abolition of slavery was hard cause' owners had property rights on their slaves.
• Abolition brought legal freedom for African and African-American slaves.
• The only reason that slavery stayed was because the democrats of
• the south understood without slavery the agricultural industry would not survive

NORTH VS. SOUTH

• South argued that they cannot relieve the slaves
• because the agricultural industries would fail without the help of slaves on the field
• The north didn't want south to have slaves
• North did not see a purpose having slaves because they had major industries
• The democrats of the South understood that their agricultural industry would decrease

IMPORTANT WOMEN

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her group of women passed down 12 resolutions
• demanding that lawmakers grant women rights equivalent to men.
• Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women possessed all the rights
• Mary Astell suggested that sovereignty was not appropriate in a family than in a state.
• Advocates of women’s rights were active in Britain, France and North America.