1.    What reasons did some women have to join the American Anti-Slavery Society? What reasons did some women have to join the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society? Why did many women choose to stay in their female anti-slavery societies?

2.    Why were there more African American delegates and attendees at the 1838 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women than at the 1837 convention?

3.    Why did some women object to having a mixed meeting with both female and male speakers (page 82)?

4.    What reason did dissenters give for not approving Sarah Grimke’s resolution stating the duty of female anti-slavery activists to refute prejudice by interacting socially with African Americans and treating them as social equals?

5.    Why was 1840 a crucial year in the Women’s Anti-Slavery Movement (page 118)?

6.    How does the Women’s Anti-Slavery Movement start to overlap with a nascent Women’s Rights Movement (page 118)?