Use the following websites, and any additional research (it is acceptable to use wikipedia for this assignment), and submit an essay that examines the role of women in the anti-slavery (abolition) movement during the 19th century. Essay should be a minimum of 500-750 words in length, use MLA style for use of sources and citations, and is due with Lesson Seven.

Address the following questions in your essay:

• What motivated women to become involved in the abolition movement?
• How did they contribute to the movement to abolish slavery?
• Who were some of the key women in the movement?
• How and why did the women’s rights movement emerge out of the movement to abolish slavery?
• What specific concerns and objectives were put forward by women’s rights activists?

http://www.historyswomen.com/socialreformer/grimke2.html

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/wmhp.html

http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/articles/historical-background-antislavery-womens-rights-1830-1845

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2939t.html

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3539