What do you see as the relationship between women’s movements and abolitionist movements? While I was reading and doing research about the topic, I found that the relationship between the Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Movement is that both movements reinforced one another. Becoming an abolitionist enabled women to speak in public and to criticize the institutions of American society that denied them. Moreover, The Second Great Awakening discussed women as moral reformers of family and society. Over time, women reformers realized that they lacked many of the same rights that they were seeking for others, and began to work for expanded rights. Women’s rights and freedoms were severely limited in the 1800s. They could not own property, rarely received a formal education, could not vote, and they could not hold office.
