Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

The amount of progress that the cause of human rights has seen since the Victorian era is massive. Before women used to be considered property to the dominant male in their lives, whether that be their husband or their father. Women's education focused mainly on tasks that women would do, such as sewing and cooking. “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” written by Mary Wollstonecraft supports women’s rights and teaches women of other skills instead of the housewife skills being taught at that time. However, women weren't the only ones being mistreated. Slaves that were predominately black were brought over from African nations in the late 17th century and forced to work for the rest of their lives. Even after slave trade had been abolished

Victorians made men's magazines and music hall skits dealing with the topic of ladies' bloomers (divided women's garments for the lower body). Horse riding was an incredibly popular pastime among the middle class and, as a result, etiquette manuals for riding were published. A major point of these manuals would be preserving modesty while riding. Riding trousers were introduced for women, to prevent chafing, however the idea of a pure woman still existed so they were worn under dresses. When a woman would ride a horse, she would have to ride sidesaddle. This was a big problem with colonialism as traveling on horseback was difficult to do because the animal had not been trained for sidesaddle

There is virtually no information about them anywhere (Jobson). One of the few things we know about black Victorians is that most of them are descendants of people that were brought over from colonies in Africa during the 17th and 18th centuries when slave trade was popular. Contrary to popular belief, black Victorians weren't really slaves. Slavery had been abolished in the early 1800s and many of the issues that black Victorians had dealt with racial discrimination. In the late 19th century, race discrimination had been fed by theories of scientific racism (the use of ostensibly scientific or pseudo-scientific techniques and hypotheses to support or justify the belief in racism, racial inferiority, racialism, racial superiority, or alternatively the practice of classifying individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races.) Claims such as white brains being bigger sizes than black brains arose as “evidence” for scientific racism. The social group of the Victorian era that personally shocked me the most, was children. Children had no rights, they obviously couldn't own land, and they couldn't be married until they were older, but they were working from as early as the age of 4 or 5! (Victorian