These include: 1  Perspiration (sweating) to cool the body. 2  Protection from the elements. 3  Sensing what's in contact with our bodies. 4  Communication with other human beings through touch. 5  Storage of water and lipids. 6  Formation of vitamin D from the Sun. 7  Water resistance. 8  Heat regulation.
Birth of the Movement. The modern American abolition movement emerged in the early 1830s as a by-product of religious revivalism popularly known as the Second Great Awakening. Revivalistic tenets led abolitionists to see slavery as the product of personal sin and to demand emancipation as the price of repentance.
Women who were active in the abolitionist movement also became interested in women's rights. Many of the men who were opposed to slavery were also opposed to women playing active roles in the abolitionist movement. This was at a time when respectable women did not speak in public.