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The Responsibility Of Women In Jane Smiley's Clergy

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Soon after in June 1837, Sarah found her calling in advocating for women. Her vision of human equally was different than what was present at the time. When she offered the idea that woman were like men a “free agent, gifted, with intellect and endowed with immortality.” (Nies, 1977) it was meant with ill feelings from the clergy and abstraction for the people. Clergy began to censor the sisters, particularly Sarah, whose feelings that anything a man can do, a woman can as well, was not met with a good response. Many prominent woman in society attacked her. However, what made her claim stronger was that she had scriptures at her disposal that backed her claim versus illogical opinions. She went on to publish the An Epistle to the Clergy of the

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