Connection between personhood and the ability to feel pain.

This passage is about the question that was raised in class when we were on the topic of Elizabeth Cady Staton. Nathan asked what the connection between, or assuming, personhood (in a broad sense) and the ability to feel pain was.

The ability to paint a picture is at odds with cold hard truth. Staton is suggesting that the slave holder can recognize the oppressiveness of the slave situation. And at the same time essential saying, the slave doesn’t feel it, or it is different that it doesn’t hurt so much. By extension, Stanton is also saying the same thing about the statement, that all woman are in the position of slaves in respect to male dominant society. Men might recognize, but woman don’t experience this as brutality. Therefore, slaves and woman both have the capacity to be hurt, they therefore have rights...