PBS: Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony-Resources
PBS: Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony-Resources
"Quakers & 19th Century Reform," by J. William Frost
James and Lucretia Mott he prominent role that Quakers played in calling and attending the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting on women’s rights is an example of the importance of members of the Religious Society of Friends in nineteenth-century reforms. Between 1750 and 1830 Friends pioneered American reform movements on slavery, temperance, peace, asylums, penitentiaries, public education, and native-American (Indian) rights. Their activities in the women’s movement should be seen as growing out of earlier reform activities, particularly anti-slavery.
The beliefs and practices of the Society of Friends served to facilitate women’s roles in moral reform. Since the founding of the sect in England during the 1650s, Quakers had insisted upon the spiritual equality of women. Quaker women preached, published tracts, and traveled in a kind of itinerant ministry. Men and women worshipped together, but conducted business in separate meetings. Women in these meetings presided, kept minutes and accounts, and wrote official correspondence to the men’s and other women’s meetings.
"Quakers & 19th Century Reform," by J. William Frost
James and Lucretia Mott he prominent role that Quakers played in calling and attending the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting on women’s rights is an example of the importance of members of the Religious Society of Friends in nineteenth-century reforms. Between 1750 and 1830 Friends pioneered American reform movements on slavery, temperance, peace, asylums, penitentiaries, public education, and native-American (Indian) rights. Their activities in the women’s movement should be seen as growing out of earlier reform activities, particularly anti-slavery.
The beliefs and practices of the Society of Friends served to facilitate women’s roles in moral reform. Since the founding of the sect in England during the 1650s, Quakers had insisted upon the spiritual equality of women. Quaker women preached, published tracts, and traveled in a kind of itinerant ministry. Men and women worshipped together, but conducted business in separate meetings. Women in these meetings presided, kept minutes and accounts, and wrote official correspondence to the men’s and other women’s meetings.
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