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imagine if you will. that you are reading a history book. you see the same name pop up in a couple places haha that's kinda funny

except it Keeps Happening.

on dying gently.

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

She was against slavery and very involved in the liberation of african slaves. She wrote two theatre pieces about it, trying to bring her ideas forward. As a result she faced harassment and death threats from slave owners.

"They called these people savages, cursed by the Heavens; but as I grew with age I realized that it was force and prejudice that had condamned them to this horrible slavery, that Nature had nothing to do with it, it was injustice and the powerful interests of the Whites that were at work."

She participated in the french revolution, but was against the death penalty and bloody massacres, which did not sit well with a lot of revolutionaries. She also complained about how women were consistently excluded and men remained in power no matter the change of regime, she criticized their authoritarianism.

When she wrote her "Déclarations des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne" it was in response to the male version of the text: the title is the same except she changed the gender. While her text was treated as a joke, the male version is still the central text of the french constitution to this day. They claim that women are included in it, but the wording is entirely masculine. It's like the national french slogan, written on our official buildings: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty equality brotherhood. They now claim it's about all french citizens. But it was and still is clearly about men.

Olympe was opposed to the institution of marriage, patriarchal and religious, she wanted a civil union, allowing women to divorce. She also wanted maternity centers to be created to take proper care of pregnant women. She wanted women to be allowed to vote and partake in politics.

When she was arrested it was because she had made a poster about the right to vote in which she gave several choices to the voters, one of which was returning to the old monarchy. It was illegal to even suggest such a thing and the revolutionaries took this opportunity to get rid of her.

She tried to claim that she was pregnant to avoid execution but it didn't work. She quickly wrote a letter to her son telling him he should be proud of her if only he cared about her. The letter was intercepted and her son repudiated her anyway. Standing before the guillotine she screamed that the people would avenge her death.

The prosecutor's statement tells you everything you need to know:

"This woman-man who was the first to institute this female society, abandonned her domestic duty, tried to do politics and commit crimes... No! You will learn that you can only be interesting and worthy of respect once you behave as nature has intended. We want women to be respected, which is why we will force you to respect yourself."