Charles Grandison Finney

Introduction - Allow to introduce myself, my name is Charles Grandison Finney, and I am an Presbyterian preacher who employs technique called “new measures” in sermons. These “new measures” have drawn controversy from men like Lyman Beecher, but my techniques work, and they are egalitarian in nature. They appeal to common people. For example, I pray with women, and use the common man’s words in my lectures. I also believe in “perfectionism”, meaning that we all can higher ourselves through moral reform, thereby living closer to god. I, therefore, am a firm advocate of moral reforms.

Lucretia Mott

Hello, my name is Lucretia Mott and I am best remembered as being an advocate of women’s rights and social reform for African Americans. On January 3, 1973 I was born to Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger in Nantucket, Massachusetts who were both prominent Quakers. When I was thirteen I attended Nine Partners Quaker Boarding School in Millbrook and later received a teaching job in the same institution. This is primarily where my interest in women’s rights began. I had discovered that male teachers were being paid three times as much as the female staff! Imagine the injustice! I fought long and hard for women’s right but I also fought for the right of divorce! Before, divorces were uncommon and when they occurred the father received immediate custody of the children. I fought for women to be able to obtain divorces and legal custody of her children. My husband and I were also great advocates for the abolition of slavery and greater moral reform. We had sheltered many runaway slaves and we both co-founded the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. I believed in black suffrage and the assertion of their social rights. Thanks to my work I was able to gain suffrage for both African Americans and women alike. However, I didn’t only work as an abolitionist and an advocate of social reform for women and blacks, but I also worked in my home which led one to comment “She is proof that it is possible for a women to widen her sphere without deserting it.”

Hallo! Ich Bin Horace Mann!

Ah, ja, the Shnitzel is quite gut today,ja? I am Horace Mann, A Senator and former represenative, from Massachusetts, and a proud supporter of improving our education system in the United states.
As a boy, I spent many days licking the sauerkraut from my fingers as I read in the library of Benjamin Franklin, studying there until I went to Brown university, and then went to law school in Lichtfield. Once I tired of being a lawyer, I decided to become a congressman, and in 1827, I became a represenative. But then I ran for senate, and won, and then I was given an offer to join the MA board of education, which I ran with an iron fist of knowledge, instituting reforms such as the "normal school", where teachers for lower schools would be taught, as well as establishing the standards for public schools in MA. Some people call me the father of education, but I try not to brag.

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