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  1. Sep 2020
    1. Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917)

      Summary: In Alice Stone Blackwell’s, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage, Blackwell has a very clear objective set in front of us. This primary source is on the bias that women have every right a man has to a voice and an opinion. Blackwell dives into common reason’s made up as to why women shouldn’t have these rights and argue against them with logic and quotations from other women with strong reasoning. She and fellow women and women organizations denounce the idea that women are not equal in pay, basic rights, and household relations. In fact, Blackwell’s rationalization shows women would only make all of these objectives better for not only themselves but for both genders as a whole because of the reasons against women’s rights.

      Reason why it is important: Blackwell’s primary source is extremely compatible with what women still see today. She briefly mentions how American women all though have freedom should not mean men can stop being gentlemen. “Justice and chivalry are not in the least incompatible. Women have more freedom and equality in America than in Europe, yet American men are the most chivalrous in the world.” (The question of Chivalry, para. 4). We see today when brought up in women’s wages versus those of men, men get uptight for various reasons, but one commonality amongst a large portion of them is that they mock women when speaking of the matter. Though women have come so much further today, it is important to know this past, so that we can keep on with the good fight for equity and liberation.

  2. Mar 2020
    1. Let every man do his duty, and be true to his country; and there was a general huzza for Griffins wharf

      The men do not agree with Hutchinson taking the side of the British government. They look at themselves as their own country at this point and head streat for Griffin's wharf where the Tea Party will take place soon.

    2. in the costume of an Indian

      At this time Indians were looked at as uncivilized and savage like. So it makes since that the men dressed as Mohawks.

      • They darkened their faces with soot
    3. Griffin’s wharf
      • The location of where the destruction of the tea occured.
      • Was a bustling center for maritime commerce and shipping.
      • No longer exists because of extensive landfills that destroyed the location. This was caused by the city of Boston’s rapid expansion in the 19th century.
    1. Carried on the Religious Meetings as often as ever, and attended the Sick and their Funerals, and did what Writings they wanted, and often Sat as a Judge to reconcile and Decide their Matters Between them, and had visitors of Indians from all Quarters…

      Tried to keep his traditions alive and fit in.

    2. 4 Years with him. —After I had been with him Some Time, he began to acquaint his Friends of my being with him, and of his Intentions of Educating me, and my Circumstances…

      Seems they became very close in those four years.

      Maybe this is why Occum became a Minister.

    3. Mr. Wheelock

      Eleazar Wheelock was an English Puritan minister and teacher in Lebanon, Connecticut. Ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans.

    4. Now you See what difference they made between me and other missionaries; they gave me 180 Pounds for 12 years Service, which they gave for one years Services in another Mission, — In my Service (I speak like a fool, but I am Constrained) I was my own Interpreter. I both a School master and Minister to the Indians, yea I was their Ear, Eye & Hand, as Well as Mouth. I leave it with the World, as wicked as it is, to Judge whether I ought not to have had half as much… So I am ready to Say, they have used me thus, because I Can’t Influence the Indians so well as other missionaries;

      Occom claims that he was subjected to racist treatment by church authorities, who refused to pay him a salary equal to that of an English minister.

    5. which it pleased the Lord, as I humbly hope

      He hopes it pleased the Lord because in the Bible it mentions in several various verses that his name should be shared and preached about to everyone on the earth.

    6. missionary, minister, and teacher

      Missionary: Sent with a religious message. Minister: The "head" of a religious group. Teacher: Teachings of certain or various subjects.

      Combined these make for a very focused class. Teaching Native American children to speak, read, and write in English all so he can teach them the message of God. Which is both jobs of a missionary and minister.