... Blackwell moved his family from England to America (Kent 20). The family found that Americans followed certain "unwritten laws" and a very few were brave enough to resist them. According to John Garraty, a specialist in American biographies, Samuel Blackwell was a "zealous champion of social reform, women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery" (Garraty 107). For example, he taught ... Achievements stated, "the (medical) profession protested that (women working in medicine) was improper, unnatural, and wasteful, since most women would never practice it anyway" (Decker O"Neil ...

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