Question

One of the most important issues facing women in the mid-19th century was their role in public affairs, that is, whether they should have one or not. You have now read two very different opinions on the matter—from writer Catherine Beecher, advocating a very limited role, and from women’s rights activist Angelina Grimké, pushing for a more expansive one. Interestingly, both were strong supporters of abolition, or the immediate end to the slavery. For the women in the class, imagine yourself an abolitionist who wanted to make her voice felt. What would Beecher suggest that you do? What would Grimké suggest? Write 100-150 words on this theme.

Answer 1

when I imagine myurself an abolitionist and wanted to make her voice felt for the women in the class. then Beecher suggest me that i developed leading educator and notion of the moral superiority of females and, asserting the importance of the home,argued that women should oppose slavery within the domestic circle but should not enter the public political sphere.But Angelina Grimké says that we do all beecher suggestion but also women enter the public political sphere

Beecher and Angelina Grimké suggestion:

Beecher, a leading educator, developed the notion of the moral superiority of females and, asserting the importance of the home, argued that women should oppose slavery within the domestic circle but should not enter the public political sphere--as Angelina Grimké was doing