Effects on Women (RIP Lil Eli)


 * Advocates for women’s suffrage focused a majority of their efforts on the abolition of slavery and basic rights for freed slaves (such as the right to vote) with the expectation that, upon winning those battles, focus would be shifted to women’s rights.
 * Once freed slaves were given their own territory, the support for women’s suffrage declined significantly. African Americans largely withdrew from matters outside of their own and, while still supportive of women’s suffrage, stayed largely away from the controversy of the protest.
 * Advocates of women’s rights based their efforts in the North while southern states held strong to the belief that woman in her current submissive role was integral to the family unit and therefore the stability of society.
 * While women were winning certain freedoms such as the right to own property and vote in elections in states throughout the North, southern states maintained an unyielding stance on the significance of women in their traditional role.