Elizabeth Packard was imprisoned for three years in the Jacksonville Insane Asylum for Challenging antebellum gender roles. Elizabeth was declared insane because of her inability and unwillingness to be submissive to her husband by giving up her religious views and her refusal to embrace her husband's religious ideology and doctrines. This class examines womanhood in the 19th century and the ways in which Elizabeth reshaped true womanhood.

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