Abolitionists and Women's Rights

There are many similarities between the abolitionist movement and the antebellum women rights. Both the Seneca Falls Declaration and Frederick Douglass speech talked about equality, either about slavery or about women. Both of these were talking about equality. The Speech and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, in 1848, related back to the Declaration of Independence. In the Seneca Falls Declaration it stated rights that were in the Declaration of Independence but also referred back to what they were saying in the rest of the Declaration. "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal:" In the first sentence down it states rights. In Frederick Douglass speech, in 1852, he talked about the equal rights, he also talks about 4th of July, and how slaves don't have that opportunity because they are not free. "There are forces in operation, which must be inevitably, work the downfall of slavery." Which also relates back to equality for slaves and men and women. Everyone must recreated equal, both the speech and Seneca Declaration showed that!

Seneca Falls Declaration

Frederick Douglass

Current Events

India's forced laborers get a taste of freedom

Source:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/06/asia/india-bonded-labor-brick-kiln/index.html

Headline:

Freedom should be among all people, they are not forced to work.

Summary:

• The Freedom Project met a woman, with no words but they found she is not being forced to work and she is taking home a wage.
• Even though these workers in India are unskilled and do not know about the work ethic they are getting paid under wage, they are not bonded laborers.
• An activist, Bhanuja Lal Saran said that so much has changed in the last 5 years, he said people now know the meaning of not being free, you will be prosecuted, it is breaking the law. "Government is more active and accountable."
• After CNN visited a brick kiln came about this is where workers got time off, and children did not have to work, this is a small start, the activist said that they have hope, "brick by brick."

Analysis:

I believe that India is not always put out there and they are not known to freedom, they are not always noticed, which is hard for people to detect the amount of freedom allowed. In India, children and the people are forced to work, but now since the freedom project, and CNN brought this rural area about, things have changed, the government noticed them, they became more involved with their nation. Freedom is an important role in history today, with no freedom we would have no rights, we would be forced into things, it would not be right. It is relevant to everyone's life, and their role in government. It is has big impact politically, and socially, without government getting involved with their freedom it would have never changed. 

India Laborer forced to work