The equality and individualism underlying the emergence of capitalism and republican government in the eighteenth century naturally led people to begin to question the rights of women and slaves, especially African-American slaves in the United States. It is no coincidence that feminism and abolitionism arose from the ferment of the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution and the French Revolution .
Just as a better understanding of natural rights developed during the American struggle against the specific injustices suffered by the colonies, the feminist and abolitionist Angelina Grimké pointed out in an 1837 letter to Catherine E. Beecher, "I have found that the The cause against slavery is the great school of morality in our land-that in which human rights are fully investigated, and better understood and taught, than in any other. "
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Both were defenders of women's rights.