Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Home Life” (1875) and William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism” (1880)
Paper instructions:
INSTRUCTION: Explain into detail each question. Separate each question with the assigned numbers. Use the text as indicated and make sure you make references to the character in the text.
1. Read Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s “Home Life” (1875). You can find it on page 14 of the Voices of Freedom, Volume 2 reader.
What is your reaction to the document? What do you think it teaches us about women’s struggle for equality? How do you think the struggle for women’s rights was connected to the fight for African American rights? (one paragraph)
2. Read “William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism” (1880); you can find the document on page 32 of the Voices of Freedom, Volume 2 reader.
Read “Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel” (1912); you can find the document on page 46 of the Voices of Freedom, Volume 2 reader.