How did the abolitionist movement lead to the women’s rights movement?

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Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Women were key participants in the abolitionist crusade and defied conventional ideas of their proper spheres by becoming public speakers and demanding an equal role in the leadership of antislavery societies.
2. When male abolitionists objected to women speaking in public to mixed audiences of men and women, William Lloyd Garrison defended them and helped forge a link between blacks’ and women’s struggle for equality.
3. The battle to participate equally in the antislavery crusade made women acutely aware of male dominance and oppression.
4. For women abolitionists, the same principles that justified the liberation of the slaves also applied to emancipating women from restrictions on their rights as citizens.
5. Wounded by men’s reluctance to extend the cause of emancipation to include women, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton began planning for a women’s rights convention which eventually materialized in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.