Suffrage

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I

Individualism rather than Authority--Personal appearance of Abolitionists--Attempt to silence Woman--Doable battle against the tyranny of sex and color--Bigoted Abolitionists--James G. Birney likes freedom on a Southern plantation, but not at his own fireside--John Bull never...

Chapters

29. Chapter 29

First Steps in New York--Woman's Temperance Convention, Albany, January, 1852--New York Woman's State Temperance Society, Rochester, April, 1852--Women before the Legislature pl...

24. Chapter 24

William Penn--Independence Hall--British troops--Heroism of women--Lydia Darrah--Who designed the Flag--Anti-slavery movements in Philadelphia--Pennsylvania Hall destroyed by a...

22. Chapter 22

Women in the Revolution--Anti-Tea Leagues--Phillis Wheatley--Mistress Anne Hutchinson--Heroines in the Slavery Conflict--Women Voting under the Colonial Charter--Mary Upton Ferr...

19. Chapter 19

The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem Convention, 1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon, 1852--The address to the women of Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbids pigs, dogs...

40. Chapter 40

MY DEAR MISS ANTHONY:--Yours of March 22d, asking of me words of counsel and encouragement for the friends of temperance, who are to meet at Rochester on the 20th inst., is befo...

31. Chapter 31

Woman under old religions--Woman took part in offices of early Christian Church Councils--Original sin--Celibacy of the clergy--Their degrading sensuality--Feudalism--Marriage--...

25. Chapter 25

On the 3d of January, 1793, the little island of Nantucket, fifteen miles by three and a half, lying far out into the sea on the coast of Massachusetts, welcomed to its solitude...

23. Chapter 23

Indiana Missionary Station--Gen. Arthur St. Clair--Indian surprises--The terrible war whoop--One hundred women join the army, and are killed fighting bravely--Prairie schooners-...

21. Chapter 21

KANSAS: Free State Emigration, 1854--Gov. Robinson and Senator Pomeroy--Woman's Rights speeches on Steamboat, and at Lawrence--Constitutional Convention, 1859--State Woman Suffr...

20. Chapter 20

does not recognize; and there is not a duty which man owes to woman, or woman to man, that is not there enjoined. It is my firm conviction, that there is but one thing to be don...

17. Chapter 17

The First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, July 19-20, 1848--Property Rights of Women secured--Judge Fine, George Geddes, and Mr. Hadley pushed the Bill through--Danger...

14. Chapter 14

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights. In barbarous ages the right of the strongest was the only one recognized; but as mankind pr...

39. Chapter 39

ELIZABETH C. STANTON.--_My Dear Friend_:--The "Woman's Rights Movement" has deeply interested your generous heart, and you have ever been ready to serve it with your vigorous un...

34. Chapter 34

DEAR MARIANA:--How rejoiced I am to hear that the women of Ohio have called a Convention preparatory to the remodeling of their State Constitution. The remodeling of a Constitut...

26. Chapter 26

In 1682, William Penn purchased Eastern Jersey, and under a Governor of his choosing, Robert Barclay, the colony became a refuge for the persecuted "Friends." It was no doubt du...

16. Chapter 16

Individualism rather than Authority--Personal appearance of Abolitionists--Clerical attempt to silence Woman--Double battle against the tyranny of sex and color--Bigoted Aboliti...

18. Chapter 18

The first Suffrage Society--Methodist class-leader whips his wife--Theology enchains the soul--The status of women and slaves the same--The first medical college opened to women...

33. Chapter 33

We are sorry to see that the women in several parts of this State are holding what they call "Woman's Rights Conventions," and setting forth a formidable list of those Rights in...

13. Chapter 13

Woman under old religions--Woman took part in offices of early Christian Church Councils--Original sin--Celibacy of the clergy--Their degrading sensuality--Feudalism--Marriage--...

37. Chapter 37

MR. SAXE not long since, in a poem, satirized literary women very keenly, upon which Grace Greenwood wrote a severe criticism on his volume, which was published in _The Evening...

35. Chapter 35

Lucy Stone, B. S. Treanor, Dr. Seth Rogers, Wm. H. Channing, Mary M. Brooks, Eliza F. Taft, Harriot K. Hunt, T. W. Higginson, Dr. A. C. Taft, A. Bronson Alcott, Mary E. Higginso...

27. Chapter 27

The reports of the Conventions held in Seneca Falls and Rochester, N. Y., in 1848, attracted the attention of one destined to take a most important part in the new movement--Sus...

28. Chapter 28

on my own principles (for we had quoted some of his most radical utterances). You have the argument, but custom and prejudice are against you, and they are stronger than truth a...

15. Chapter 15

In newspaper literature woman made her entrance at an early period and in an important manner. The first _daily_ newspaper in the world was established and edited by a woman, El...

32. Chapter 32

MARGARET FULLER possessed more influence upon the thought of America, than any woman previous to her time. Men of diverse interests and habits of thought, alike recognized her p...

30. Chapter 30

Sec.4. The other provisions of the Revised Statutes relating to the granting of divorces for adultery, and regulating the form and manner of proceedings and decrees, and the eff...

38. Chapter 38

Lueretia Mott died at her quiet home, "Roadside," near Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 1880. Notwithstanding the Associated Press dispatch said, "Funeral strictly private by special requ...

36. Chapter 36

_Resolved_, That all laws and customs having for their perpetuation the only plea that they are time-honored, which in any way infringe on woman's equal rights, cramp her energi...

12. Chapter 12

First Steps in New York--Woman's Temperance Convention, Albany, January, 1852--New York Woman's State Temperance Society, Rochester, April, 1852--Women before the Legislature pl...

11. Chapter 11

Mrs. Stanton's and Miss Anthony's first meeting--An objective view of these ladies from a friend's standpoint--A glimpse at their private life--The pronunciamentos they issued f...

5. Chapter 5

KANSAS: Free State Emigration, 1854--Gov. Robinson and Senator Pomeroy--Woman's Rights speeches on Steamboat, and at Lawrence--Constitutional Convention, 1859--State Woman Suffr...

4. Chapter 4

The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem Convention, 1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon, 1853--The address to the women of Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbidding pigs, d...

6. Chapter 6

Women in the Revolution--Anti-Tea Leagues--Phillis Wheatley--Mistress Anne Hutchinson--Heroines in the Slavery Conflict--Women Voting under the Colonial Charter--Mary Upton Ferr...

1. Chapter 1

Individualism rather than Authority--Personal appearance of Abolitionists--Attempt to silence Woman--Doable battle against the tyranny of sex and color--Bigoted Abolitionists--J...

10. Chapter 10

Tory feeling in New Jersey--Hannah Arnett rebuked the traitor spirit--Mrs. Dissosway rejects all proposals to disloyalty--Triumphal arch erected by the ladies of Trenton in hono...

8. Chapter 8

William Penn--Independence Hall--British troops--Heroism of women--Lydia Darrah--Who designed the Flag--Anti-slavery movements in Philadelphia--Pennsylvania Hall destroyed by a...

3. Chapter 3

The first Suffrage Society--Methodist class-leader whips his wife--Theology enchains the soul--The status of women and slaves the same--The first medical college opened to women...

2. Chapter 2

The First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, July 19-80, 1848--Property Bights of Women secured--Judge Fine, George Geddes, and Mr. Hadley pushing the Bill through--Danger...

7. Chapter 7

Indiana Missionary Station--Gen. Arthur St. Clair--Indian surprises--The terrible war-whoop--One hundred women join the army, and are killed fighting bravely--Prairie schooners-...

9. Chapter 9