arlington provided this video. professor cole: today s class is doing a couple different things for us. i am going to tell you about the history of lucretia coffin mott, who was a noted antebellum reformer, one of the most famous women of her day. and she was noted because she was active in the cause against slavery. she was a famous abolitionist. she opposed indian removal and supported native american rights. she was an attendee at the first women s rights convention and a frequent speaker at women s rights meetings through the 1850 s. and she spoke on a number of other causes, major and minor, of her day. she believed in religious tolerance, she believed in temperance, and a number of other social causes of her day. so i am going to talk about her, but i am doing a couple other things for you here too. the premise of this course is the idea that you must understand women reformers in the context of their day. so i am going to trace her personal context, which is very impor
tolerance, temperance, and a number of other social causes of her day. i am going to talk about her, but i am doing a couple other things for you. the premise of this course is the idea that you must understand women reformers in the context of their day. so i am going to trace her personal context, which is important, she was a quaker and i will talk about what that means, but also her social context, social, political and religious contexts, the things that were going on around her. and it is my argument, the city, the domestic second great awakening which i have mentioned, was a part of what helped to radicalize her, contributed to her effectiveness. so both her personal and social contexts are part of this. and i want you to see this as modeling for your own thinking about your own reformers. each of you is working on a reformer, and i want you to weigh what is in her personal context as a reformer and in her larger context that shapes are issues and effectiveness. think
and educational institutions in newly freed african-american communities. professor turner: alright, so today, we are going to be talking about the meaning of freedom, and i wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we thought about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom as freedom with a line through it. not quite freedom. two freedoms, this question of freedom and what did it mean? for today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean? in particular, what did it mean to the free people? and in january of 1865, the secretary of war, edward stanton and union general william sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. they were preachers, pastors, lay church leaders, and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that the freed people wanted from freedom? what did they expect? and particularly, what did they expect in the aftermath of th
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