Pre-Conference Tour: The Movements Tour
Explore how Latter-day Saint women interacted with the visionaries, events, and ideas behind American abolition and women’s rights activism in the nineteenth century with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Sasha Coles, and Rebekah Clark.
8:15 AM - 5:00 PMThu
Hyatt Regency, Lobby
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Join historians Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Sasha Coles, and Rebekah Clark as we explore how Latter-day Saint women interacted with the visionaries, events, and ideas behind American abolition and women’s rights activism in the nineteenth century. The all-day Movements Tour will begin in Rochester with stops at the Frederick Douglass Initiative, Susan B. Anthony House & Museum, and Mount Hope’s Cemetery. Then, we will travel to Auburn to see the Harriet Tubman home. This will be followed by a visit to the Wesleyan Chapel–the site of the 1848 women’s rights convention–in Seneca Falls. Throughout the day, tour leaders will present on various Mormon women’s history topics, including their support of the national suffrage movement and their experimentation with silk production in Utah Territory. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience first-hand the movements that took root in upstate New York, shaped Mormon women’s lives, and fundamentally transformed American society.