The year is 1848. A young woman and her two children sit huddled, tired, dirty, and hungry on the deck of a massive freight ship. The boat docks and hundreds of people shuffle down to the portion of the boat where they have been told to disembark. The mother files in line, holding each child by the hand, not saying a word. After getting off, taking a small ration, and signing a dirty piece of paper, the woman leaves the dock and, child by each hand, takes to the streets of Manhattan, unsure of where to go or whom to trust. The exact same day in Seneca Falls, New York, a group of 300 men and women meet to discuss the injustices laid upon American women and declare entitlement to the promises of the Revolution of 1776. Creating their own list of grievances against men and their male-dominated society, feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton proclaim that, “Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in......

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Title: Freedom In America: Pre-Civil War
Approximate Word Count: 1258
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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