Susan B Anthony Thesis Statement

(Attention Grabber) “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” With these simple words, suffragist Susan B. Anthony epitomizes the women’s rights movement of the 1800s. (Topic Sentence) This movement swept the nation and spoke out to various groups of people. (Background Information) When men began to work in factories and shops, their wives suddenly had their own house to be in charge of. This small spark quickly blew into a flame that no man could ever put out. Remarkable individuals such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton drove for equality between the sexes and stressed the idea that everyone can think, work, and earn money for themselves. In addition, suffragists compared their hardships and need for change to
They were expected to be completely dependent on the men in their life, and some even considered the life of a woman to be a form of slavery. (Evidence) Lucretia Coffin Mott, along with 21 other women, went on to found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. This society encouraged women to make their voice heard as well as hasten the abolition of slavery in the United States. Although not a part of the society, Angelina Grimke spoke out for women’s rights as well as slavery, “Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education”. (Elaboration) Clearly, women’s contributions to abolition and women’s rights would not have been possible without the women’s rights movement to give women a place in a man’s world. (Analysis) Overall, this massive impact on the abolition of slavery and creation of equality is widely credited to women’s rights