How were the Abolitionist movement and the Women's Rights movement related?

Answer 1

They saw that they both were disenfranchised at that time in history. The desire to be heard and heeded and treated equally was something they shared, and you know what they say about strength in numbers.

Interestingly, later (and by later I mean early 1900s, not today) women's rights advocates also shared a lot of members in common with prohibition, but that's another story.

Answer 2

The connection is that women became highly supportive of abolition. These abolitionist spent much of their time fund raising or giving speeches such as the Grimke sisters about the evils of slavery. Women abolitionist spoke of a bond between white women and slave women calling them sisters. They told of the terrible labor women slaves had to deal with (they thought that no women should be doing a mans job).

When the civil war was over there was alot of women who had time on their hands since there was no longer the abolitionist cause. Women rallied together behind suffrage. Suffrage and women's rights made head way after the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 where the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted. Women had enough and wanted rights to property, children, politics, education and employment.

American Women's History

Answer 3

Many prominent women abolitionists became leaders of the charge for women's rights.....Connections Academy :)