WARE Cons pe side + stagle to lon of DIRECTIONS: Read the two following sources on women’s rights and ANNOTATE for TOPIC (What are they talking about) and TONE (How does each source discuss the topic? What is the mood?). Then complete the graphic organizer on the next page to compare and contrast each issue. 3 & Source #1: Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848); Written by Elizabeth cans ton to be read aloud and adopted by the Seneca Falls Convention VSiNg_ struchyrt. DOL We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and womeWare created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Me, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness... wowtn ‘The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a did world. : candid word comparing men te £G3 — aS tyrants He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise [vote] He has fe her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. eaepell x bchad _He has like, me taxation, wee, oe. ‘most ae, degraded men—both natives and foreigners. Wonnen Treaked og KOSS than the lowest mon in So may He has taken from her allright in property, even to the wages she earns # igh, Now, in view of this entie disfranchisement of oe-hlhe ppl ofthis cou ste social and religious a DoT, ses showing vs Wa degradation,—in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel‘themselves aggrieved, Pe ressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all eae Tights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United a GOAL: Giticenshia—> voting (ud covlel alow to change unjust lavas) Source #2: “Ain't I a Woman?” (1851); Speech by Sojourner Truth, Delivered at the 1851 Wonten's Convention in Akron, Ohio ‘Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? en Vpdliewt Yok worn chosla ye traded as delicuke- white ones ‘That man over place everywhe! Ta woman? Look at me! Look at my arml I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into bars, and no man could head me! And ain't Ta woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the C lash as welll And ain't Ia woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when T fere says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't | a woman? ? standards of vwomanhod not Applied te slave ‘Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as thuch rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did you ere did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing Christ coma from? Whi to do with Him, aie | sing the Bilole feat her are went a) If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it ight side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. 13Compare and Contrast the TOPIC of each source: (Generalize) These sources AGREE. COMPARE (similarities) n_agtnt trtalrA equally to men lu shold be ‘es DISAGREE... Lact (Generalize) However, these gourc on the tole. (Specific example) For example in Source #1 CONTRAST (differences) (Specific example) And as an example from Source #2. (Specific example) But as an example from Source #2... Compare & contrast sources on TOPIC Compare and contrast the TONE of each source: (Generalize) These sources AGREE... ut COMPARE (similarities) lack of women's mahte __ ‘Specific example) For example in Source #1... CONTRAST (differences) (Specific example) And as an example from Source #2. (Specific example) For example in Source #1 (Specific example) But as an example from Source #2. Compare & contrast sources on TONE 14