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Sojourner Truth: 'Ain't I a Woman?' and Itinerant Advocacy
Evaluate Sojourner Truth's speeches bridging abolition, women's suffrage, and religious faith.
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Abolitionist Voices: Leaders, Speeches, and Grassroots Action
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Examine the foundational leaders, moral arguments, and resistance networks—from radical manifestos to the Underground Railroad—that powered the early abolitionist crusade.
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USI.T4.2.aMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradethe Abolitionist movement, the reasons individual men and women (e.g., Frederick Douglass, Abbey Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Charles Lennox Remond, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, David Walker, Theodore Weld) fought for their cause, and the responses of southern and northern white men and women to abolitionism.
USI.T4.2.bMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradethe women’s rights and suffrage movements, their connections with abolitionism, and the expansion of women’s educational opportunities (e.g., Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Mary Lyon and the founding of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mt. Holyoke College).