PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ROUSSEAU
-Girls were educated to become housewives
-Enlightenment thinkers thought that women should have rights.
MARY ASTELL
-Drew from John Locke- thought that absolute sovereignty was not appropriate.
-If men were born equal, why were women slaves?
18th CENTURY - BRITAIN
Mary Wollstonecraft
-Read books to educate herself
-Published essay that stated that women should have equal rights as men
-Right to education would make them better housewives and they could contribute to society in politics
DURING WAR
- Sewed uniforms
- Nurses at war
- Managed farms
- Ran businesses
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
-Republican Government provided free public education
-Granted wives family property
-Did not give right to vote
-After French Revolution, rights were lost and never gained back fully
19th CENTURY
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
-Organized conference at Seneca Falls
-Passed 12 resolutions demanding women's rights
-Right to vote
-attend school
-enter professional occupations
-participate in politics
FREEING OF SLAVES
William Wilberforce
-elected in Parliament
-gained anti-slavery supporters
-launched campaigns to abolish slavery
-British outlawed slave trade
-Navy patrolled coasts to make sure law was followed
COMPLICATIONS
-Abolishment of slavery became more difficult due to property rights in slaves
-In Haiti and much of South America, end of slavery came with independence
-Slavery was abolished in all of British empire, followed by France, U.S., Cuba and Brazil
EFFECTS
-Brought legal freedom, but not equality
-African-American people had little to no influence in society
-many believed that other races were inferior to whites.
