LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
Angelina E. Grimke
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838
LETTER I
SLAVE RIGHTS NOT FOUNDED ON MORALS
Dear Mr. Editor: I write to thee to express my opinions on thy moral rights of all men and women. The appropriate rights of women are the same of those of men as regards to moral beings. The moral nature effects all humans that are of moral beings, therefore all moral beings should be treated in the same equal manner. I write thee, to express my discontent for the way in which women are treated as slaves to men.
Women have forever been indebted to men, as slaves are to their owners. As I investigated the teaching of the Anti-Slavery cause, I have come to discover that I am no better off then a slave. For men’s belief in the superiority of physical strength surpasses that of women’s has led to there senseless and idiotic conclusion that they have the right to dominate our lives. The mere fact that a man has the ability into which he can perform daily tasks that require more strength then women does not give them the authority to control us. Women have always been given more domestic tasks. But because men’s labor demands more strength does not concluded that they should be given power over women. If we come to accept that because of this men have the authority and control, it is like submitting oneself into a monarchy, which we clearly know and history has replayed this event several times, has only led to the seizure of unalienable rights."
Angelina E. Grimke
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838
LETTER I
SLAVE RIGHTS NOT FOUNDED ON MORALS
Dear Mr. Editor: I write to thee to express my opinions on thy moral rights of all men and women. The appropriate rights of women are the same of those of men as regards to moral beings. The moral nature effects all humans that are of moral beings, therefore all moral beings should be treated in the same equal manner. I write thee, to express my discontent for the way in which women are treated as slaves to men.
Women have forever been indebted to men, as slaves are to their owners. As I investigated the teaching of the Anti-Slavery cause, I have come to discover that I am no better off then a slave. For men’s belief in the superiority of physical strength surpasses that of women’s has led to there senseless and idiotic conclusion that they have the right to dominate our lives. The mere fact that a man has the ability into which he can perform daily tasks that require more strength then women does not give them the authority to control us. Women have always been given more domestic tasks. But because men’s labor demands more strength does not concluded that they should be given power over women. If we come to accept that because of this men have the authority and control, it is like submitting oneself into a monarchy, which we clearly know and history has replayed this event several times, has only led to the seizure of unalienable rights."
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