How Did Angelina Grimke Use Letter To Catherine Beecher
Jeremiah Wilcox
April 14, 2013
His 2040
Jeffrey Powell
Women’s Rights
Women have suffered throughout history. Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller wrote letters to express the importance of women’s rights. Often comparing women’s rights to slavery, each letter stressed the importance of equal rights for all. I never knew women were oppressed that badly. The letters these women wrote were based on moral rights, observation of injustice, and suppression in society. Each letter written expanded my knowledge on women’s rights. Although each wrote letters, the effectiveness of the writer’s point of view made some essays more effective at proving their point than others. Throughout this paper I will summarize, compare and contrast, and analyze each letter written to determine which paper effectively persuaded their reader.
Angelina Grimke wrote “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex, Letter to Catharine Beecher” in 1837 to express the need for recognition for women’s rights. Grimke’s essay talks about human rights, which she relates to slavery. She related women’s rights and slavery by their moral rights, or moral nature she also described it, and how all men have moral nature so therefore all men have rights, “When I look at human beings as moral beings, all …show more content…
Although her wording was broad, her essay still specifies and stresses the importance of moral rights. Grimke gave a new perspective on the issue of women’s rights. For example, she discussed the widely known story of how women were created. Women were created from the rib of man. God took man’s rib to create his companion, or so we believe. The perspective Grimke gave was that women were created as lower than man, as man’s property. “…Woman was never given to man. She was created like him, in the image of God…” (Grimke 143) Since it was from the man’s rib she expressed that God made woman less than man, which is not
April 14, 2013
His 2040
Jeffrey Powell
Women’s Rights
Women have suffered throughout history. Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller wrote letters to express the importance of women’s rights. Often comparing women’s rights to slavery, each letter stressed the importance of equal rights for all. I never knew women were oppressed that badly. The letters these women wrote were based on moral rights, observation of injustice, and suppression in society. Each letter written expanded my knowledge on women’s rights. Although each wrote letters, the effectiveness of the writer’s point of view made some essays more effective at proving their point than others. Throughout this paper I will summarize, compare and contrast, and analyze each letter written to determine which paper effectively persuaded their reader.
Angelina Grimke wrote “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex, Letter to Catharine Beecher” in 1837 to express the need for recognition for women’s rights. Grimke’s essay talks about human rights, which she relates to slavery. She related women’s rights and slavery by their moral rights, or moral nature she also described it, and how all men have moral nature so therefore all men have rights, “When I look at human beings as moral beings, all …show more content…
Although her wording was broad, her essay still specifies and stresses the importance of moral rights. Grimke gave a new perspective on the issue of women’s rights. For example, she discussed the widely known story of how women were created. Women were created from the rib of man. God took man’s rib to create his companion, or so we believe. The perspective Grimke gave was that women were created as lower than man, as man’s property. “…Woman was never given to man. She was created like him, in the image of God…” (Grimke 143) Since it was from the man’s rib she expressed that God made woman less than man, which is not