å Wednesday, February 8th, 2017

Angela Davis brings to the attention of the reader from the beginning that women had many obstacles against them because of their race, class, or status. They were looked upon as property from the perspective of men. Viewed as  housewives,  nurturers, and child bearers, nothing more. In chapter 3 Davis expresses it was a long time coming for the equality of woman’s rights and  the significance of the first World Anti Slavery Convention in 1840. Stanton a middle class woman who’s goals seemed to be put on hold because of her being a wife and mother, stated that she might not have known where to begin, or how to begin but  woman being oppressed for so long she knew change must take place. During the initial planning their were disagreements between Lucretia Mott and Stanton on whether the right to vote for woman should be a encouraged, i believe that defines part of why the fight for woman’s equality but more specifically political equality began to take its first steps anyway. The right to vote being a very significant factor, although some may not have agreed at the time. So although Mott and even her husband downplayed this thought, Frederick Douglas was an important person who actually stood behind woman becoming able to vote. Douglas firmly supported, bringing the issue of woman’s rights to the attention of the Black Liberation Movement, as well as The National Convention of Colored Freedman. Opening the door for woman to be included in other important movements. The battle for woman’s suffrage was an ongoing process, when the Seneca Falls Convention took place women who had no wages to rely on from the work “they had done were fighting for more then the right to vote, they were fighting for survival” (Davis, 60).  These working woman experienced getting their money they earned taken away from a male and being controlled. Woman going through the same issues, fighting for similar changes, seeking advice and equality of all rights aspired to one day be looked at in the same eyes men are looked at in.