Baptist women’s organizations centered poor working women rather than an elite class

Evidence

In contrast, the leadership of the Woman’s Convention targeted its appeal to a vast constituency of poor working women, and explicitly characterized its membership as the “persevering poor,” “daily toilers,” “common everyday women,” and the “common people of whom God made more of than the other kind.” These images, which were attributed to working women and typically domestic servants, contrasted sharply with images of a hedonistic bourgeoisie and an unproductive lower class. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 943

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Baptist women’s organizations rejected prestige-seeking elites who shunned the poor — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1629; Female Baptist convention delegates numbered few but were highly educated — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1231

Broader Connections

• Baptist women’s organizations rejected prestige-seeking elites who shunned the poor #expands (0.88) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1629