I’m trying to study for my History course and I need some help to understand this question.

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In the American Yawp, the authors cite the challenges of race, class, and gender that arose from the industrialization and the growth of democracy. The moral fabric of the young nation was uncertain. The identified solution in the text is the awakening of spirituality and the renewal of incorporate worshippers that resulted in strong religious communities. Walker cites a similar challenge by accusing the white Christians of America for degrading and wrenching the people of color. He considers religion as a solution for redeeming the oppressed. Charles Colcock Jones laments the discrimination of the poor (Negroes), especially in social and religious matters. He considers the white Americans as responsible for caring for the Negroes. “It is iniquity and disgrace when we forget them!” He advocates for the unity of all rather than that of professionals and people of classes for the young nation to progress. Jones’s opinion aligns with the ones presented in the A Member of the Ladies Home Missionary Society Visits Five Points, where the challenge of the young nation is considered as outcasts. These were the economically strained families, the drunkards, the naked, uneducated, and the sinners. The solution to this challenge was visiting these destitute and renovating their Five Points to make them children of God. The author of the A Camp Meeting 1829 gives an account of the isolation of communities in the young nation. This resulted in the camp meeting where the isolate sought solace from players and devotion to religion. In the Declaration Sentiments, Candy and Mott narrow down their challenges for the young nation to the discrimination of women. The proposed solution is equality and the promotion of women’s rights in society.

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Good work. Let’s explore a couple of your points a bit more. First, if Walker expresses that white Christianity is responsible for the degradation of enslaved Blacks, is religion the solution? And, second, how did Stanton and Mott propose to achieve women’s rights/equality?