Woo. We spent the weekend at an academic conference that is exploring not only the history of abolitionists in our national history, but also with the foundational mission of returning them and their work to the formal historical narrative. The young academics and grad students are incredibly excited by this.
Several of the presentations were about the women in the abolitionist movement, and the connections among them and women's rights.
The snarky person you link to, snarked merely for the sake of snarking. It's not helping -- and by now, presumably this fairly youngish still person, is far removed from what was academically fashionable when she was an undergrad. Nor does she really know much about this history of Stanton and Douglass and women's rights. By the way, as much as I admire Douglass and his achievements, it cannot be denied that he was as patriarchal about women and any man of his time. Now, let's see if this person does the same snarkitude passing for lordess knows what on Douglass and how he married white women ....
The women did feel terribly betrayed that when African Americans were given the vote, the vote went only to MEN, not women, and they, with their own achievements, education and incredible effort, were passed over -- because they were women. It had to hurt and create a terrible bitterness, which it did. Consequently, in time-honored fashion, that the women expressed their anger, resentment and bitterness was held up by sneering white men as proof that women weren't fit to handle the vote. All this helped put back the movement for a long time, in so many ways. Sigh.
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Several of the presentations were about the women in the abolitionist movement, and the connections among them and women's rights.
I described it, to a degree, here: http://al-zorra.livejournal.com/1134310.html
The snarky person you link to, snarked merely for the sake of snarking. It's not helping -- and by now, presumably this fairly youngish still person, is far removed from what was academically fashionable when she was an undergrad. Nor does she really know much about this history of Stanton and Douglass and women's rights. By the way, as much as I admire Douglass and his achievements, it cannot be denied that he was as patriarchal about women and any man of his time. Now, let's see if this person does the same snarkitude passing for lordess knows what on Douglass and how he married white women ....
The women did feel terribly betrayed that when African Americans were given the vote, the vote went only to MEN, not women, and they, with their own achievements, education and incredible effort, were passed over -- because they were women. It had to hurt and create a terrible bitterness, which it did. Consequently, in time-honored fashion, that the women expressed their anger, resentment and bitterness was held up by sneering white men as proof that women weren't fit to handle the vote. All this helped put back the movement for a long time, in so many ways. Sigh.
Love, C.