Chapter 6

MASSACHUSETTS.

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 Ferrin Petitions the Legislature in 1848--Woman's Rights Convention in 1850, '51--Letter of Harriet Martineau from England--Letter of Jeannie Deroine from a Prison Cell in Paris--Editorial from _The Christian Enquirer_--_The Una_, edited by Paulina Wright Davis--Constitutional Convention in 1858--Before the Legislature in 1857--Harriot K. Hunt's Protest against Taxation--Lucy Stone's Protest against the Marriage Laws--Boston Conventions-- Theodore Parker on Woman's Position 201