Reading Notes Week 7 Part B

Reading Notes 

Week 7

Part B 

• In London 1840 two women were denied the right to speak at a World Anti Slavery Convention, outraged by the bigotry eight years later in Seneca Falls New York,  Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton held a Women's Right Convention with over 300 delegates at attendance. 
• They came togethers  to discuss their need  for a right to vote and more equal rights for women.
• The plea for women's rights made the press and many religious leaders feel shocked and against the terror women voting would bring. 
• The fight for women's right to vote would take another seventy years to be a reality in the US
• pg. 51 "the law, in all cases, going upon the false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands". 
• Women were being to start a new conversation using their knowledge to learn the laws and challenge the inequality's that were clearly against women having any say in anything. 
• The law basically made men all powerful in the eyes of society 
• "He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education-all colleges being closed to against her". pg. 51 
• On pg. 52 "He  has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself".
• "we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges, which belong to them as citizens of those United States". 
• Herman Melville wrote the most famous book "Moby Dick" but his "Bartleby" included a character to remember Bartleby who raises multiple philosophical questions 
• Walt Whitman and Herman Melville were both nineteenth century Goliath in literature also both born in New York in the year 1819.
• Both democrats and opposing slavery
• "Or even the narrator concludes, Bartleby can-not be interpreted at all: he is an unknowable cipher, one of the enigmas of a plural and puzzling "humanity". 
• A complex character who is also hard to forget after reading this story of rebellion that takes place in a dark office on Wall Street.