Women's Suffrage In The Solitude Of Self By Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The main document being addressed is The Solitude of Self by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton was a major leader and supporter of women’s suffrage. She wrote different speeches arguing the importance and reasoning for women’s equality. Another speech discussed arguing for women’s rights was in 1848 at Seneca Falls. Stanton’s main argument was on equality of both men and women. The other two documents compared are about class equality and brutal and unjust murders of African Americans. Gender, class, and race were major political topics during the 19th century. Women and African Americans were not treated equally or respectfully compared to their Caucasian male counterparts. Many people fought for justice and equality including Elizabeth Cady

During the 19th century, women did not have rights to own property, citizenship, or vote. Men owned all property, women did not have citizenship rights, and only men were able to vote. At the beginning of the Progressive Era, women’s roles expanded and caused increased participation of women in politics. Due to this, the issue of women’s suffrage became a large part of politics. Although The Solitude of Self is an appeal for women’s rights, it says that everyone is an individual and unique. While Stanton did support abolitionism, her primary focus was on gender, not race. Class was not discussed compared to a document that will be compared in the next paragraph. Although the focus of what she said pertained to gender, most of what she said could have been applied almost equally as well about race. With only a small change, what she said about the difference between genders could also have been said about difference in race. However, she did not specifically apply to

Wells-Barnett in 1900. Lynching was still a major event when this was written. Many innocent African Americans were lynched. Some were lynched for things they did not do or for minor offenses. Wells-Barnett wrote about the criminal act of lynching. She believed that Americans should fight against it because it should be considered a criminal act. She wants Caucasian citizens to rethink the murder of innocent African Americans. Both Wells-Barnett and Stanton were powerful female leaders who were supporters of equality. Although Stanton was a supporter of equality, she did not specifically mention African American equality rights. The primary focus of Lynch Law in America does not appear to be on equality so much as inhumanity. One could agree with Wells on lynching without even going as far as believing in racial equality, much less gender or class equality. The Wells argument seems to focus on inhumanity to African Americans, not even so much as racial