Why did antislavery activists angelina grimké, sarah grimké, and maria stewart encounter hostility in the north? a. no one was receptive to the substance of their speeches. b. some northerners believed that women should not instruct men. c. the women often insulted their white audiences. d. they insisted on being paid the same as men speaking on the same circuit?

Answer is b. some northerners believed that women should not instruct men.They encountered hostility in the north because they offended a rigid cultural norm by speaking in public and presuming to instruct men. The northerners believed that the women should not instruct men. The male forces vengefully attacked these women and the most demoralizing attack came from the religious quarters which the council of congregationalist ministers of Massachusetts delivered a pastoral letter chastising them for their engagement in the activities which destroyed the women’s divinely ordained role.

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