We Want Equal Rights: How Suffragists Were Influenced by Haudenosaunee Women

Download or read book We Want Equal Rights: How Suffragists Were Influenced by Haudenosaunee Women written by Sally Roesch Wagner and published by 7th Generation. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Want Equal Rights! Is the story of remarkable women who laid the foundation for the modern women's movement and the American Indian nation that proved equality as possible. In 1850, these brave women challenged a culture that believed they were inferior to men. How did they envision such a world? They looked to their neighbors the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and saw how women were held in high regard, with even greater rights than men. At that time in the United States, a woman was considered subservient to her husband, who gained all his wife's wealth upon marriage. Women had no claim to their children and were considered runaway slaves if they left an abusive man. In contrast, Iroquois society provided a shining example of what is possible when women are treated with respect. Read how early activists forged a path to women's equal rights using the ideals of their Indian neighbors.