How did this perceived “superior moral compass” limit women? How does it continue to limit women? How did this sentiment limit the suffrage movement? What historical events in the 20th and 21st centuries echo these sentiments? On a whole, do people in the 21st century still believe in the “cult of domesticity”? And does it depend on a woman’s role?
“Roughly 1 million slaves were imported to the colonies before the American Revolution.” By the time of the American Revolution, slaves made up 40% of the population of Southern jurisdictions. When considering African slaves and Native Americans, many colonists were afflicted by racism. Benjamin Franklin feared that African people would “darken” the people of America, […]