The intimately oppressed

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The intimately oppressed

• Francesca Aviles
• Chapter 6
• Gabriel Buelna-ChS 245 OL-13063

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Preferred figures

• Men seemed to always take the important roles in
  life
• Men were the explorers,land holders, merchants,
  political leaders, and military leaders
• ( Zinn pg 103)

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The forgotten

• Women were the ones who were initially invisible
  in the early years
• Hardly had any rights
• Likewise slaves and slave women had the double
  jeopardy
• ( Zinn pg 103)

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Women in different societies

• Earlier societies in America as explained by Zinn
  treated women equally or almost
• Women in the plains were known to be healers,
  herbalist and advice givers

• Women didn'tt have the same rights as men but
  were treated with enough respect
• ( Zinn pg. 104)

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Year 1619

• In year 1916 woman were imported as sex slaves to
  be sold to men
• Also it was when black slaves firs entered
  Virginia as slaves
• ( Zinn pg 104)

• Black woman slaves were
• One third of the cargo being
• Imported
• Not only Blacks but free white
• Woman were brought as wives
• ( Zinn pg 105)

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Women and mistreatment

• Women were being put on trial for rebelling
  against these unfair treatments
• A lot of women were pregnant and a lot of them
  lost their babies

• They were still accused for being at fault

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Anne Hutchison

• She was taken to trial for heresy also for
  questioning authority
• The day she went to trail she was sick and
  pregnant and was not allowed to sit

• She left the colony for Rhode Island, along with
  35 other families
• She came across Indians in Long Island who
  thought she was an enemy and was killed
• ( Zinn pg 109)

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The Revolution

• This was the beginning of politics for woman
• They also contributed to the British Tea Tax
• ( Zinn pg 109)

• Woman were brought out to public affairs because
  the war needed of them
• Women formed patriotic groups, carried out
  anti-British actions and wrote articles for
  independence

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Woman's political rights

• Although women were a big part of the Revolution
  they still weren't given a spot in History
• Even after the revolution women were not given
  the privilege to vote
• ( Zinn pg 112)

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Woman images

• Woman were not expected to do anything a man was
  to do
• Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a
  woman
• ( Zinn pg 112)

• People could not fathom woman and politics in the
  same sentence
• A woman's job was to keep the home cheerful, be
  a nurse, cook a woman should read too much

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Separate but equal

• Woman and men were given rights but not the same
  as men
• Woman could work but they were stilled involved
  in fixed marriages
• Woman could not determine their own future

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Cult of true womanhood

• Although this was a new ideology of giving a
  woman her space and jobs it still wasnt enough
• women could not vote ,or own property

• woman were excluded from professions of law
  and medicine, from colleges from the ministry
• ( Zinn pg 115)

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19th century

• There was a double view to woman
• Some woman were still at home or when needed
  asked to work in factories

• On the other hand there were woman who pursued
  for on education
• That by 1840 women became teachers, organizers
  and also speakers
• (Zinn pg 117)

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Women in politics

• In 1840 they had a convention that focused on
  anti slavery
• Women were allowed to be part of this convention
• Woman eventually got excluded off

• The women defended themselves by sitting in a
  silent protest with support of William Lloyd
  Garrison
• ( Zinn 122)

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July 19th 20th

• A Declaration of Principles was signed
• It explained that men and woman were created to
  be equal
• In the 1850s women are still being kept in their
  woman's sphere

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Work cited

• Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United
  States 1492-2001. New York HarpersCollins,
  n.d. Print.