RUNNINGHEAD: Feminism

[Date of Submission]

Feminism

Sklar, “Throne of My Heart”: Religion Oratory and Transatlantic Community”

1) Using specifics from the article, how did religion help/hinder the beginningof the women's rights movement?

Religion helped Angelina Grimké by empowering Grimké's subjectivity. The dissention of religion in Great Britain and the New American Republic created new social and political independent spaces. These served as foundations for Angelina to work on women freedom like anti-slavery. “We act as moral agents and Christians……. To our Maker… rights….of the gospel…. Act for women”

Sarah Grimké, “Reply to the Massachusetts Clergy”

2) Summarize Sarah's response to the Pastoral Letter. What are her more salient arguments? Do you find this piece compelling? What do you think the likely response to such a letter would have been?

Sarah's response was to force the clergy to change their concepts of slavery and to recognize it as an offence against the divine order of things. For her arguments she presents the Fall of Man, she says that by claiming ownership of another man impossible because God's image rests in all of humanity, man cannot be an owner of any image of God and to treat them like animals is the contradictions of the psalm's characterization of human nature.

Angelina Grimké, “Address”

3) Summarize Angelina's address. What do you think her response to the rhetorical question “What shall we do?” (p.46 of CP) Do you think we face similar issues/questions contemporarily?

Angelina Grimké's address simply is about abolishing slavery. She emphasizes the fact that slavery was the ultimate evil which led to the destruction of Egypt and the Judas. She further highlights the importance of the actions of single individuals in the cause. She constantly alludes to the South in speech presenting her arguments of the actions that had already taken to work against slavery and the reaction which the South had towards ...