Directions: Please answer ALL of the following questions in the form of a substantial paragraph of 3-5 sentences (~100 words).
1. What are the commonalities and differences in Garrison and Grimke’s respective
approaches to the issue of slavery’s abolition?
2. The text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments is explicitly based on that of
the US Declaration of Independence. What key points are omitted or changed in the
text of the Seneca Falls Declaration? Why?
3. What is Sojourner Truth’s point in her famous speech to the Women’s Convention of
Akron, and what is its significance?
4. What is Walt Whitman’s vision for American poetry, and of the role of the poet in
American society