Reforms such as tolerance, and prohibition, the abolitionist movement, plus the organizations of the Millerites and other denominations grew to believe in equal rights and natural companionship for all (Document E). Women were strong leaders in the abolitionist movement (Document H), such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. These ladies learned that many of the men who were opposed to slavery were also opposed to women playing active roles or taking speaking parts in abolitionist movement. The attempt to silence women at Anti-Slavery Conventions in the United States and England led directly to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's and Lucretia Mott's decision to hold the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y, in June 1848. One of the articles of belief proclaimed at that and subsequent conventions was that women were in some sense slaves
Reforms such as tolerance, and prohibition, the abolitionist movement, plus the organizations of the Millerites and other denominations grew to believe in equal rights and natural companionship for all (Document E). Women were strong leaders in the abolitionist movement (Document H), such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. These ladies learned that many of the men who were opposed to slavery were also opposed to women playing active roles or taking speaking parts in abolitionist movement. The attempt to silence women at Anti-Slavery Conventions in the United States and England led directly to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's and Lucretia Mott's decision to hold the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y, in June 1848. One of the articles of belief proclaimed at that and subsequent conventions was that women were in some sense slaves