Today everybody is treated equally.  In fact, recently a female is a democratic candidate for president.  A couple hundred years ago, this would be impossible. Women in the 1800's couldn't own land, or even vote. On top of that, the inherited land automatically went to their husband. Many women had been arguing for the freedom of slaves.  They then realized that they didn't have many rights themselves, let alone slaves.

 

Women did not have the right to vote at this time..

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were American Quakers who were abolitionists.  As wells as fighting for slaves, and women's' rights, the Grimke sisters were educators and writers.  Angelina wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper The Liberator.  At this time, the newspaper was published by a white man, William Harrison.  Harrison also played a major role in the fight for women's rights.

 

The Grimke Sisters

 A portrait of William Garrison

Garrison was a white man who played a major role in women's rights as well as slave's rights.  He was a abolitionist who almost was hanged by an angry mob until the mayor interferred and saved his life.  Despite this fact he still continued to publish his newspaper, The Liberator.

 

Elizabeth Candy Stanton

Elizabeth Stanton was part of American delegation. This delegation attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.  She traveled their, just to find that women were not allowed in.  She was forced to sit behind the curtain where she was joined by her friend, Lucretia Mott.  William Lloyd Garrison joined them not long after to show his support. This is when all three of them realized that they were fighting for slaves' rights, when women themselves barely had any rights.