Our First Town Hall Meeting

Today in class there was a town hall meeting consisting of over 20 well-known pro and antislavery figures. Each person in the class chose an individual they felt had a huge impact on the slavery movement, either for or against it.

I represented Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a prominent women's suffragist who also played an important part in the anti-slavery movement. She believed that the anti-slavery movement was the foundation to the women's rights movement. She gained her inspiration for social activism from her father, a politician who was a key person in the anti-slavery movement as well.

The economy was the main point for both sides of the argument. People who were pro slavery explained the economic benefits for having slavery in a society.

By the end of the town hall meeting we decided that the arguments against slavery won.