Equal Rights

“Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally”  (Abraham Lincoln)

Black slavery started in 1610 when a trader exchanged his load of African Americans for some food. The conception of the black slavery system hadn’t truly picked up all around the world until the 1680’s. Virginia was the first place to start trading African Americans for food and other helpful resources. In the 1680’s African Americans became essential to the economy of Virginia. The word slave didn’t show up in Virginia until 1656. It was horrible in the 1600’s to around the 1930’s because African Americans were worth something, food.  Women also cost 120 pounds of tobacco. The Africans were bought from the Dutch who were on low food supplies. The women were bought from a supplied English company. Those who married the women had to pay them 120 pounds of tobacco. With the success of planting tobacco, African slavery was legalized in Virginia and Maryland. During the 17th and 18th century all of the African Americans lived in England’s North American colonies. Before Great Britain prohibited its subjects from participating in the slave trade, between 600,000 and 650,000 Africans had been forcibly transported to North America.

Black slavery was a horrible agreement between many countries. Abraham Lincoln helped in making one of the greatest changes in history. Personally I think when they made trading African Americans legal it was one of the biggest mistakes ever made in the history of the world.

“It is our duty to make this a better world for women” (Christabel Pankhurst)

Canada was one of the leaders in the world of equal rights and women’s rights. These issues were central to Canada’s rights and freedom. Canada was committed to the view that gender equality is not a human rights issue, but is also an essential component of sustainable development, social justice, peace, and security. These goals would only be achieved if women are able to participate as equal partners, and decision makers in their societies.

The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women’s Suffrage. Suffrage meant the right to vote and that is what all women wanted to be able to do-hence it’s inclusion in Fawcett’s title. It was in 1923 when women finally achieved their goal to be able to vote, yet women still were discriminated against. Women were expected to stay at home and care for their families. If a women did have a job it usually wasn’t a good job, men also didn’t want to work with women or for women.