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America in the mid-nineteenth century in the world Wind of Change expansion and growth particularly artists and writers literature even in politics and economics American intellectuals commit themselves to the liberation of a human. the word aesthetic literary artistic cultural movement that came from is Europe a prominent Lee from England to the United States and it became popular by the mid 1820 and it was a movement that draft sensation people wanted to be excited by month and they wanted to have their passions excited you can see it work itself out in the Hudson River School of painters paint wildly colored and beautiful pictures of expansive landscape and things like waterfall and dorms what romantic for described as the sublime pumping at quinciple straightening it thrill you at the same time but you have to see romantic influence on things like the transcendentalist movement tree David Thoreau write about nature in a way that's very informed by a romantic sensibility he talks about the Majesty of the West and the ability nature to inspire great thoughts in human beings and that we all ought to be taking a walk out into the Wilderness everyday to sort of consider what Nature has rot around us I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential Facts of Life  and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived so it was a time when America had come up with enough native intellectuals and writers that they could play on Advance their own sort of sophisticated intellectual movement Which Europeans had kind of question whether Americans ever would be able to come up with such a thing when was the defendant ventless Toronto reflected in the emergence of several utopian experiment  group size be most interested in have beaten fruits that have been formed by reformers who especially in the 1840s hope that a more cooperative for massage enable them to help them achieve that aspirations which go to bring about reform enable them to live a way of life with Stacy as preferable to the paucity of the household they Society anytime Celsius  many of them emerged in reaction to the economic system that was growing in the United States in the first part of the can Century economic system that is capitalist and Market Day an economic system which is increasingly dependent upon slavery Simone Terran groups in Generations between some religious famous station easy Sanctuary communal group of the cheapest individual, less successful groups like the one I studied in my followers and French themselves Association who didn't abolish private property this construction more or less complicated systems we Michael Kor purses Robert Owen the English industrialist who established in society at New Harmony Indiana not necessarily totally in opposition to capitalism because he himself turn industrial enlightened class of workers that would stress education and equality and a kind of countercultural stop at capitalism many of these did not last for very long because most of them were not very practical and they could not support themselves attempts to liberate the individual order on a changing World also spontaneity  one of the most influential with when was the era sister Crusade against Rockingham  what's the temperature  popular among working-class particular was called Washington in which people would find the pledge of they called it that they would not drink alcohol or they would not drink hard liquor particularly from social Elite temper does a kind of social control a way to cut down on social problem cut down on poverty cut down on the abusive women does alcohol cause a lot of problems but really to improve the working conditions for their workers  name a prominent group with reactive in Temperance Movement women  the religious revival in a June 23rd June 30th or very critical to Bringing women into Reform movement because as mothers and his wise they are concerned about habits of drinking and intemperance drinking is correlating violence when did women get mauled in a public political issue at first was in the temperance movement is moral suasion and prayer entry women kid involved with bin how to keep the change in the lot doing the same. Another major Reform movement begin to take over total abstinence from plates and was put a new sort of religious Evangelical terms, most abolitionist now we're not write numbers here but these people were absolutely devoted to this cause and away which is standing because the idea that some people should be slaves was part of the world tradition  the first major abolitionist voice that snow today is William Lloyd Garrison who began his paper The Liberator in 1831 and he gathered around him in his America population of society a group of men and women white and black who began to speak in Northern cities at first about the evil of and they've practically called the radical abolitionist the people who advocated immediate abolition of slavery in the and demanded equal rights to African Americans sentence with unheard of  their voices were very unpopular Northern audiences what's not want to hear them either there were the radical abolitionist and then there were in political abolitionists who believed that you had to compromise your morals play some off sometimes you had to work with a political system that wasn't as friendly to what were extreme views of the radical abolitionist m simplistic we're deeply affected by the Declaration dependence they would use Jeffersonian language but I must say there's another form of freedom use the one they inherited from  and that was the idea that what persons were endowed with what's not just writes something hard and tangible it here that couldn't be invaded But the people were in down with the capacity bro to their full humans testing had a kind of secret Nest they had a potential they had possibility what's fulfillment and so many of the Abolitionist preferred this language to the right place  what's your for abolition at not confine Northern Tier States  there were some places in South that the Post lady who plays in the American Colonization Society the idea to remove Danger and curse evil among the white people not said it was evil in relation to the blank so much as the freedom to be cruel was of great does it affect on the black man Northern abolitionists to venture into the sound discover that they are exposing themselves to potential Danger weapons of defected agents of the Abolitionist Movement workmen from some other part of the world can you make a comment against slavery and they find themselves in trouble as a word because there were a lot of Yankees in the South itself you also had powerful black voices coming out and speaking black boy text Frederick Douglass  as a Young Man a slave and Maryland's lived in Baltimore escaped by the railroad came to New Bedford and discovered a power within him to communicate and begin speaking to anti-slavery societies was taken up by William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent radical abolitionist such as Theodore Weld and all these men were gifted speakers allow me to ask why am I called upon to speak what have I all those I represent to do with you National independent principles of freedom the Liberty party an independent between by your father's by you this post of July is yours not mine you may rejoice do you mean citizens to mock me you hear the mournful wail of Millions  my subject in today Bello City is American snakes standing here with God in the question bleeding slave on this occasion making his wrong mine not hesitate to declare with all my Mid-America is parked to the past to the present and solemnly able to bring this Paws into the public Mind by open an 1835 after not long after they start their movement for immediate abolition they sent out hundreds of thousands of pamphlets and of the South every little corner of the country that could find really reactants burning of the classic play the team to a contest between the property rights of the slave owners and the human Freedom the human dignity of human possibilities of the slave language was not enough it was the first time that many white Northerners. about black people as human beings a plays as human beings because they might not have like slavery  and they wouldn't want to children to grow up parking next to a flavor within a slave system but they didn't really think about the horror of slavery the fact that it erased your Humanity that but you mine was great it was against the law to learn how to read and write and that's Frederick Douglass wrote so beautifully about was that for him it wasn't just about the beatings in the whipping and the work the terrible worker how many went to that your mind was not allowed to develop I wouldn't say that abolitionism was ever a popular movement but in the North in contrast to the South they were allowed to dumb people particularly women listen they begin to form the rank-and-file of the Abolitionist Movement as pull up the temperance who distributed violating the true Womanhood play the last one to do I went to the native Tyrese to get them to sign antislavery petitions out of their feelings about what they doing some family my powerful moment in American history when thousands and thousands of turn in the petition. Still the national all-time when can actually go and look at them see what it took for an individual women married to go to assign her very own name to the public statements they are statements about slavery and they are statements about what play we can do to the minds of those who are not enslaved women also begin to speak out to larger audience we are familiar with the names of Sarah Angelina Grimke who were white place on Earth in the South Carolina who became a post play free  they broke the law that teaching their slaves to read which of course with the legal list please be able to unearth abolitionism criticized there they eventually left the house and moved Philadelphia join the Quaker Meeting and became involved in the anti-slavery movement and play Garrison heard about Angelina Grimke she wrote for the Liberator and she began to go around and speak in public but a crisis in the anti-slavery movement because conservatives who are happy to have women raise money for the cause your might be happy to have women doing Church work cool politically men and women with animals them to book open and right kind of trade-off that goes on there we all know the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who goes to London imagine abolitionist with her husband Henry who to go to an abolitionist society meeting where Elizabeth is exclude get Duncan's from the meeting and confined to the ladies gallery and so Garrison and some of the men said we'll if they can't sit down here we were there and The Story Goes that Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were sitting there in the balcony and someday we'll have to do something about this issue is 1840 fact if they were women and that at the same time they had something to play which they didn't think men were understanding and that that something had to do with a relationship with female slaves as women who wins as slaves as mothers with the issue of slavery raise for family for child rearing from mother for who gets to keep the baby that's produced by a woman sing sing will wait a minute we as women are also not treated equally in this society and they started to work on both intellectual and social justifications for women's equality and it slip heart anti-slavery movement about whether the men would support when is right speak in public  and what kind of response is there early feminist Ventures 85 very many people at first there was also skepticism from some parts of the population from working-class women and from African-American women that maybe this movement had do it then there were prominent exceptions to this someone like Sojourner Truth who was a black anti-slavery activists and also a black feminist she the former slave and was active in both movement so much racket going on I think between the niggars of the South and the women at the North all talking about rats the white rental benefits pictures what song is here talking about that man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lift it over have the best places everywhere nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles and give me my best what does a woman look at my arm I have plowed and planted it in the van I could head meet an eight-hour woman  and they're the can a woman I have 13 children sold into slavery and when I cried out with a mother's beach heard me and woman true Men in Black YouTube women can have as much right to because cross was in a woman what is your first come from winter craft come from from golf  and a woman  that had nothing to do the first woman turn this world upside down all these women together to be able to turn it and get it right how much applied need to hear  enalapril Jenner has nothing more to say and then in 1848 Stanton and I happen to be living in Upstate New York near Seneca Falls and they put an ad in the newspaper in call for meeting about women's rights and they're so really careful about their behavior that they don't feel women should run in Frederick Douglass the abolition of some former slave runs the meeting he's going to share and 350 or so men and women show up in their carriages on this hot sun 1848 in Seneca Falls New York to talk about the rights appointment and they drafted a statement called the Declaration of Sentiments which put forth program in the language of the Declaration of Independence calling for equality for men and women the Declaration of Sentiments began that all men and an are created equal  history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man or woman having indirect object the establishment of absolute tyranny over her to prove it let facts be submitted to a candid world he never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise  he has some tells her to submit to laws in the formation of which Admiral voice  tax withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men both Natives and foreigners she has married in the eye of the law he has taken from her all right in property listen to the way Journey he has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers making herself repent and you make her willing to leave a dependent and abject life  Mountain View is retired deep franchise one half of the people of this country and because women do feel themselves aggrieved oppressed and fraudulently deprived with a mistake right we insisted they had immediate admission to all right and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States after some criticism much debate and a few alterations the resolutions are adopted and what impact did any of these efforts have  who is not a why they accepted moving although they did have successes fairly early on they were very persuasive lunch and so for example play they had a campaign to gain married women's property rights that's one of the places that they gained some Hearing in the upper echelons of government and some States including New York State move even in the 1850s to overturn older laws that disallowed married women from holding property I'm so they Skippers for listing terms of voting very early on but in terms of other rights legal rights divorce rights custody rights over children on they were a game that slightly more sympathetic hearing weekend as it got more political because of the fact that most Northerners did they didn't want to break up the Union what type of slavery at this time they just wanted things to go their way of Court says as the southerners wanted things to go their way but they began to the number of men and it was all men at this time of course International state legislators who took the anti-slavery position drawing light and they mostly clutch around New England and John Quincy Adams is perfect example that they're mostly in the Whig party they were politicians who were in and everything for their vote if they were interested in promoting economic advancement they were interested in benefiting their own State and their but when it came to discussion and debate about slavery they were on the negative side they were on the side that wanted to end slavery in the territories for example of yes there were a number of prominent wigs who did not like Flav and could be said to be somewhat affiliated with abolitionist only a small number of people except the relation of position that slavery must be eliminated in a single stroke but the Crusade that has been lost and that thousands of committed men and women will keep alive for three it's a constant reminder of How Deeply the institution of slavery is dividing America turn on flashlight The Unfinished nation is 52 part American history series for more information about this program and the company materials call +1-800-576-2988 or visit us online at w are you w intellicom org

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