Question

Historian Bill Bigelow once wrote that the ”...abolition movement seeded the movement for women’s rights in the United States.” How could the experiences of Angelina and Sarah Grimke support Bigelow’s claim about the relationship between the abolition movement and the women’s rights movement? They both wanted to end slavery and they both think the abolition movement is going to start a new chapter for women's rights.

Answer 1

Answer:

Both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement were part of the larger progressive movement that influenced American Politics during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

For this reason, both movements aimed for equal treatment of a particular opressed group: African Americans, who wer enslaved, in the case of the abolitionist movement, and Women, who had less civil and political rights than men, in the case of the Feminist Movement.

Both movements were very successful because they achieved their main goals: the end of slavery and women's suffrage.