Women In Reform Movements The role of women in the many reform movements from eighteen to the ninteen hundreds, was a time of major change. before this time all women were was possesion to their husband, they did only house work and cooked. after that time they became educated and learnd that their was more to life that what they had known. as any human has acted in the past, women started to rise up and demand more, not just fo themselvs but of the world around them. About the mid ninteen thirties the anti-abolitionist went on large rampages in the north, meetings, free black homes were destoried, and so too were the homes of weatly sporters for the free blac