Unknown. Women property-owners were sometimes given and sometimes exercised the right to vote during colonial times.
She cast the vote for one of my relatives. Yes, I’m related to Lord Baltimore
In 1647, Margaret Brent of Maryland colony assumed her right to vote twice -- once for herself as a property owner and once for Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, because he had given her a power of attorney. The governor denied her request.
1875 Minor v Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875): The U.S. Supreme Court declares that despite the privileges and immunities clause, a state can prohibit a woman from voting. The court declares women as "persons," but holds that they constitute a "special category of _nonvoting_ citizens."1900 By now, every state has passed legislation modeled after New York’s Married Women’s Property Act (1848), granting married women some control over their property and earnings.
The so called savages, Native Americans, naturally gave the women rights that the white man took away. Acoma in New Mexico is a matriarch, the women own the village.
The women in tribes owned the tepees.
A right we were granted between 1848-1900.
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/suffrage/abigail.htm
1777 All states pass laws which take away women’s right to vote
1839 The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own name, with their husbands’ permission.
Yes we lost the right.
1776 Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new code of laws. Adams replies the men will fight the "despotism of the petticoat."
1777 Women lose the right to vote in New York.
1780 Women lose the right to vote in Massachusetts.
1784 Women lose the right to vote in New Hampshire.
1787 US Constitutional Convention places voting qualifications in the hands of the states. Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote.
1792 Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the Rights of Women in England.
1807 Women lose the right to vote in New Jersey, the last state to revoke the right.
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Take away? Really? I would have thought that such rights did not exist then.
I'm with "codepoke" thinking there was no voting for women in the beginning, but only after laws were passed allowing them to vote.
The mind set that removes a woman from voting reminds me of the attitude some in the COC have today... I won't go any further! :)
Larry,
Your views are welcome here. Even to a COC woman. :-}
Your comments about the Indian matriarchy are interesting. Another balance I have heard of from Africa is that the elders of the tribe are all men, but they are appointed by the women.
It seems to me that prior to the fall, we were supposed to live matriarchally. God's Word to Women (the book) has some interesting thoughts on this.
It was 1920 before women were given the right to vote through the ratification of the 19th amendment. This was long after the 14th and 15th amendments were passed making it "legal" for blacks to vote. The suffrage movement was long and hard...over 70 years.
I dont know who was able to vote under colonial rule but I would assume that it was landowners.
One of my most cherished memories is of speaking to a woman who remembered vividly the suffrage efforts. It is a shame that it is so casually treated in our history and in the hearts and minds of women that forget to exercise the right.
I did not mean to discount the fact that blacks were not REALLY able to vote until the acts of 1965. Both civil rights victories took far too long.
Wow Andreia,
That is a cherished moment. It must have been heart breaking for some of the women, not to see it in their life time and yet knowing that they were making a difference in the lives of future women must have been an amazing thought. Your right we aren’t taught this in the school history books. It’s a reminder that we need to teach our sons and daughters the things the schools leave out. I try to teach my children the truth about our Native American history. They avoided me through my watching of In To The West as I was angry and crying part of the time. I did give my son a history lesson on Custer.
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