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Assignment #1

I believe that Angela Davis is trying to show us that convention at Senaca Falls wouldn’t be effective as it was if there were no woman’s working classes. Of course, there were great assistance from upper classes females like Elizabeth Cady Stanton who aided the abolition of racism and inequality of sex. She stood up to fight against society because she also experienced that every efforts she did to get knowledge from law schools and excellence in studies became nothing as she married. It was important for high classes to fight against society to achieve same right as male. However, as Angela Davis mentioned in this chapter, it wasn’t a life-related problems to the people who are women at higher classes compared to working classes. Women at working classes wanted better quality of life, and it would be obvious that they were desperate to improve their lives and wanted to be treated same as male.
Furthermore, I think Angela Davis also trying to tell us that cooperation between Black and White was important. When abolition against gender inequality and racism happened, male anti-slavery leaders also fought with abolitionist for women right. For example, Fredrick Douglass, an African-American social reformer and abolitionist, helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton introduced a resolution on woman suffrage. There was no one but Fredrick Douglass who helped her to extend the right to vote to women. Furthermore, most of the African Americans who lived in this period were slaves and discriminated by racism. Therefore, they desperately wanted the right of women and black. Sojourner Truth, an African-American abolitionist and women’s right activist, did a speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” at 1851 women’s convention in Akron, Ohio, and I think it touched many people’s heart because she had preparedness for death to achieve the right.
In conclusion, I believe that Angela tell us that outcome of this convention was successful because there were groups who had same ideas like they wanted to get educated.