Read the excerpt from Eighty Years and More.
Which detail supports the central idea that Stanton feels
females and males were generally treated equally at
Johnstown Academy?
O Untill was sixteen years old, I was a faithful student
O I was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics
Until I was sixteen years old, I was a faithful student in the
Johnstown Academy with a class of boys. Though I was the
only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the
languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled
freely together. In running races, sliding downhill, and
snowballing, we made no (division) of gender. True, the boys
would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for
their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our
school relations. I dare say the boys did not make their
snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their
faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's,
but there was no public evidence of [favoritism].
[There was no public evidence of [favoritism].
True, the boys would carry the school books