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Material Type: Notes; Class: The United States to 1877; Subject: History; University: University of Mississippi Main Campus; Term: Unknown 1989;
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the proper study of Mankind is
Man
”
(Alexander Pope, 1733)
Largely a movement of the educated and
the upper class.
Enlightenment (the Age of Reason) 1690s – 1770s
:
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Natural Rights
(life, liberty, and property)
natural liberty and tyranny
Consent of the Governed
John Locke
(1690)
!
justified England’s
(1688)
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of theRights of Woman
(1792)
Judith Sargent
Murray
(Constantia)
The Gleaner
(1792)
education, not nature, wasresponsible for femaleinferiority
for women based onnatural rights and theperfectibility of [wo]man.
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Hated slavery
, but: