PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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They received special training.
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They were also revivalist speakers.
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The were part of the labor movement.
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The had once been slaves themselves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass were effective abolitionist speakers because they could describe their personal experiences of slavery. It humanized the injustice of the institution. Copies of their speeches were also circulated in print form to reach wider audiences.
Detailed explanation-2: -What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common? They were both former slaves who contributed to the abolitionist cause.
Detailed explanation-3: -As an itinerant preacher, Truth met abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Garrison’s anti-slavery organization encouraged Truth to give speeches about the evils of slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly to make sure that emancipation would be one of the war’s outcomes. He recruited African-American men to fight in the U.S. Army, including two of his own sons, who served in the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Detailed explanation-5: -Abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Sojourner Truth was enslaved in New York until she was an adult. Born Isabella Baumfree around the turn of the nineteenth century, her first language was Dutch. Owned by a series of masters, she was freed in 1827 by the New York Gradual Abolition Act and worked as a domestic.