Role Of African American Women During The Abolitionist...

Role Of African American Women During The Abolitionist...

Jesha C. Lor

Raney

Civ II– Research Paper

4/22/16

Roles of African American Women during the Abolitionist Movement Many are well aware of the historical movement the, Abolitionist Movement but, are they aware of the women that were involved? When the abolitionist movement started, its goal was to immediately emancipate all slaves and the end racial discrimination and segregation in the North and South. However, they weren't granted emancipation until the 1870s. During this movement there were many men activists involved as well as women activists. Women during this era, fought not only in the front line for rights, but also behind the scenes as they integrated their rights for freedom in their daily lives. Women abolitionists fought for freedom through educating blacks, both free and enslaved, circulating petitions, writing letters/poems, and publishing articles about anti–slavery into periodicals such as the Liberator. There was such diversity in the women, who participated in anti–slavery activities, the variety of the goals or purposes in which they pursued, and the barriers in which they faced as women. A woman who was very involved in the movement was Maria W. Stewart. Stewart was an African American woman who, after her husband died and got the inheritance he left for her taken away by the white executors of her husband's will, published many essays on religion, racism, and slavery. She was connected with an abolitionist publisher William Lloyd Garrison who

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