tree_portal quoted Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
An idealogical consequence of industrial capitalism was the shaping of a more rigorous notion of female inferiority. It seemed, in fact, that the more women's domestic duties shrank under the impact of industrialization, the more rigid became the assertion that 'woman's place is in the home.'
— Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (Page 32)
White women were witnessing that their rights as a human were being completely eradicated. Women have more or less always been doing work at home, from cooking to making soap and clothing, but it was more of a partnership amongst her partner. Now, it was turning more into what it is today with 'conservative' traditional values where the women is a stay at home mother with no rights and no political views to be shared. These women took part in the anti-slavery movement because they saw what it was like to be dehumanized.