Judith Sargent Murray: The Republican Motherhood Movement

During the American Revolution women’s equality was put into question when women were not offered the same rights as men. One of the early women to advocate this idea was Judith Sargent Murray. Judith Sargent Murray was an early American woman who proposed Women’s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. Murray’s ideas about women’s rights were considered extreme in the 1700s. Murray asserted education should be equally offered to women as the same as men and argued for women to earned and manage their own money. By demanding women to be treating equally Murray challenged the founding fathers of American and opened doors to future generations of women’s suffrage. (National women’s history Museum)
Judith Sargent Murray was born on May 1, 1751, in Gloucester, Massachusetts into a wealthy merchant family. As a daughter …show more content…
Murray’s ambition was for women to have a better education and economic independences. Murray essay played an important role in the post-Revolution “Republican Motherhood” movement to challenge the role of women in society in the 18th-century. The Republican Motherhood movement was lead by Abigail Adams to argue about the education mother give to patriotic sons who were allowed to vote. The education that mothers thought to their sons was important to the government of the country because the education they recive from their mother influed their political view. Like Adams, Murray disproved the idea that women were incompetent to logic and that mental exercise harmed their physical capability to have children. Murray advocated that the brain was not inferior because of the sex of the person, except that women’s intelligence levels were due to the education that they received in early life, not due to inherent incapability. (National Wome’s History