When I was just a little girl I didn’t think like
the others. Everything I thought was right they thought was wrong. That made it
difficult growing up and following momma and daddy’s rules. Life was different
for me growing up. Up until I was seventeen years old I was fighting for
anti-slavery. It wasn’t right the way they treated the black folk. Although on
rainy days as I reflect it was easier to stand up for the back folk than it was
to stand up for myself. Although one day I met a really nice lady named
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was really sweet and as we were talking I noticed
that what we thought was right and wrong were just about the same. Elizabeth
told me about the Seneca Falls Convention that she started with her friends. “At
the convention we talked about women’s rights in the home, at work, at a
social, anywhere women feel that they are not equal to men.” Says Stanton as
she explains to Susan. Within the year Susan and Elizabeth were close as ever.
Those two women knew what they wanted and were determined to succeed. They
worked day in and day out on whatever idea that they had coming. In 1852 they
created the New York Women's State Temperance Society because they were angered
that Susan couldn’t speak at a conference just because she was a woman. That
next year they collected signatures from people who were all against slavery
(later called the Women’s Loyalty National League). Three years later they
created the American Equal Rights Association which its goal was to have equal
for all women both white and black. Soon enough Susan and Elizabeth found
another woman who thought the same way that they did, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Together
they created a books called History of Woman Suffrage. I was just doing what I
thought who knew that I could make a difference in all of these women’s lives.
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This is a really good biography! You really took on how Passos wrote by integrating the two styles of writing he did. You wrote as if she was talking and also wrote as a third person about her. You gave a lot of detailed information about how she contributed to the social issue. Women's rights are an important topic and you displayed that well. I like how you started off with the narrative and also ended with her thoughts, but did not put the quotations around it. This really shows that you know how Passos wrote, which is something I should have paid more attention to when writing my biography.
ReplyDeleteI loved the style of writing that you used for this biography! I thought you did an awesome job describing her life and I really enjoyed how you wrote this from her perspective, rather than from an outsiders perspective. I thought you had a great amount of detail, and did an awesome job overall. I think the issue of Women's rights is a very important issue and still needs to be dealt with in todays society. Lastly I think the picture you choose went great with your writing. It is a simple picture of her, but you can tell in her face how stressed and overwhelmed she is. She is looking off into the distance, as if she is looking off into her future hoping for a change in this society.
ReplyDeleteWomen’s suffrage and equal has been a circulating topic for years now and Susan B. Anthony is one of those figures who represents how one person can make a difference and lead a charge for equality. It wasn’t easy for her at the time to get the support but as the years passed, so did her supporters. Susan and her partners, like you stated, were set on succeeding to change what was wrong with how individuals were treated, whether it was for anti-slavery or women's suffrage. I enjoyed reading this and it was informative on what Susan set out to do throughout her life.
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