miss+addya+chappell

Begining in the mid-19th century several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured wrote marched and even practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the constitution.One woman who was apart of this was Sojourner Truth in 1843 she took the name Sojourner Truth,believing this to be on the instructions of the Holy Spirit and became a traveling preacher(the meaning of her new name).In the late 1840s she connected with the abolitionist movement,becoming a well known speaker to those around her and those who feel the same way that she does.In 1850 she began speaking on topic of woman suffrage.Her most famous speech was, Ain't I a woman? was given in 1851 at a women's right convention in ohio.

Born a slave in maryland,Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom,and later led more than 300 other slaves to the North and to Canada to their freedom.Harriet Tubman was also acquainted with many of the social reformers and abolitionists of her time,and she spoke against slavery for women's rights.Another one of these women who were in the 19th century woman's suffrage is Susan B. Anthony. Anthony wasinvited to speak at the third annual National woman's rights convention held by Syracuse,New York in September 1852 she and Matilda Joslyn Gage both made their first public speeches for Women's rights at the convention.Anthony attempted to unify the African American and women's rights movements when,recruited by abolitionist Abby Kelly Foster, she became an agent for William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society of New York. Speaking at the nineth National Women's Rights Convention on May 12,1959.