Question

the limitations to freedom for slaves, [free blacks,] and white women" during the Age of Reform. Also, discuss "how ... women's participation in the abolitionist movement enable[d] them to raise issues of their own natural rights and freedoms

Answer 1

Two lesser-known examples of white women abolitionists are, I believe, useful in recognizing how the involvement of white women in the abolitionist movement has helped them express their own rights and freedoms.
Starting in 1843, Lucy Stone was one of a few women allowed to attend Oberlin College in Ohio, but she was not permitted to take part in speech courses. She first practiced her oratory alone, in the forest near college, in order to develop her skills in this field. Not long afterwards, she encountered reformer Henry Browne Blackwell who was one of the Republican Party's founders and a keen supporter of emancipation.

Stone started to give speeches on emancipation along with Blackwell who later became her husband. She and Blackwell had a had interest in women's suffrage too. Thus, through learning to express her strong opposition to slavery, Stone slowly established a voice on the issue of suffrage By looking at the oppression of others they understood how they (kind of) were equally oppressed. Some abolitionists opposed this, but others were forced to accept that they were hypocrites because of their "innate inferiority" as they did to slaves.