What role did women, Native Americans, and African Americans play from 1789 to Reconstruction? How did the status of these groups change throughout the period?

 

Women during the Antebellum period were more stringent in promoting their own rights. During these years the understanding of women meant that they were guardians of virtue and the spiritual heads of their homes. This condition therefore required women to be more submissive and domestic.

Since this period, female have made great strides towards reforming the education sector. Both Native and African Americans supported this reforms viewing them as important in promoting their civil rights and changing their opinionated view in life. An example of such reforms was the introduction of curriculums especially the Mount Holyoke seminary that had a goal of promoting female education across the country and its ideas about women's potential to take part in public life.

Abolitionist women were common during this times when they promoted antislavery enchantments and the Indian removal issue .Mostly ,African American women used white women platforms in advocating for their grievances which at some cases were seen to differ from those of the white American abolitionists. White women's organizations for instance mobilized for maternal feminism but Black women used this discourse involving more negotiations to promote antislavery chants.

Women participation in the antislavery campaign most directly inspired specific women rights campaigns. Many of the earliest woman rights advocates began their activism by fighting the injustices of slavery. Women during this time were more important towards raising the preceding women rights activism that were more important in raising gender equality.

Women in the Antebellum period therefore used many domains to try and promote women rights in gender equality issues and also improve on the real issues affecting the society in the period beginning 1789 up to the reconstruction period. Among the most important platforms was religion and evangelism where they promoted the consideration of many aspects of the society especially affecting their own societies.