Equal Rights Of African American Women In The 19th Century

All American women in the 19th to early 20th century faced social and legal disabilities that forbade women to have the same equal rights as men. Through all the obstacles that made women’s rights achievable were the hardships that influenced historians such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony to overcome the inequality in property rights, family law, and education to allow women fulfill the same opportunities as men that is seen in society today. Women protested and petitioned to get equal rights as men and focused on overturning the barriers that did not allow them to have equal opportunities. In the 19th century, Harriet Tubman believed in equality to all: black or white and male or female. Tubman was a supporter that strived for her freedom as well as the freedom of others. Harriet Tubman focused mainly on the equality on African American women who were enslaved by the rich
Tubman constructed the idea that impacted the decision of abolishing slavery and allowing African American women to have the same rights as white women had, moreover, end the discrimination of women who were seen as “property” and not human beings. Before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made the great efforts to obtain equality, women were not allowed to vote; society viewed women vulnerable and weak to do any hard labor like men do, their job was to stay home and take care of the household and children and have a meal prepared for the husband. Women did not have education, and those who did had limited education, whereas men were allowed to have an education. Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the Seneca Falls convention to propose the idea of women’s suffrage and as a return, Stanton and Anthony were suffered by the