Question

HOW DID SOME INDIVIDUALS BALANCE ABOLITIONISM AND THE CULTURE OF BEING 19TH-CENTURY WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES?

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Some individuals balanced abolitionism and the culture of being 19th-century women in the United States in the following ways.

Women started to increase their participation in the abolitionist movement in the early 1820s. Many started to publicly express their thoughts. Others began to write essays or publications supporting the abolitionist movement.

Women like Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins, or Harriet Tubman, were activists and writers who supported abolition a fought against slavery. There were women like Sarah Maps Douglass, who actively participated in abolitionists groups such as the African American COmmunity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.