Assignment #8

Assignment Due (11/19): Choose a passage from Stanton or Anthony and one from Douglass. Write out the passage and explain what the author is saying and how it relates to the themes of the lecture, and then explain why you chose this quote.

Elizabeth Stanton
"He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.He has withheld from her rights, which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men -- both natives and foreigners.Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they are done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master -- the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement."


Stanton is explaining the beginning of the suffrage movement and the right to vote.She explains how women's weren't represented and they had no say or voice. She also states that even men immigrants have more rights then the women who are citizens here.When a woman has a voice, then laws are  created differently. If married you lose all the rights and your husband has a say for himself and on your behalf. Basically leaving you lifeless. Everything belongs to him that was once your in your head.To sum up he has been given the right to deprive her of her liberty. This relates to our lecture theme civil disobedience because is all about obeying the laws and following the rules. As a women these were the laws that were established. I chose this quote because you can clearly see how much inequality was occurring within gender.

Fredrick Douglas

“It was a long, lean, gaunt, shivelled looking creature, stretched out on two chairs, and his legs resting on the prostrate bust of Washington; projecting from behind was a cat o’ nine tails knotted at the ends; around his person he wore a belt in which were stuck those truly American implements, a bowie knife, dirk, and revolving pistol; behind him was a whipping post, with a naked woman tied to it, and a strong- armed American citizen in the act of scourging her livid flesh with a cowskin. At his feet was another group;—a sale going on, of human cattle, and around the auctioneer’s table were gathered therespectability,…”

Douglas is explaining the cruelty and the ignorance that was happening with slavery. How they weren't even considered humans they could be compared to animals.

Slavery and women s rights is a topic that has been fought for over years. Civil disobedience is more of fighting for those rights.