History of woman suffrage
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Editor), Susan B. Anthony (Editor), Matilda Joslyn Gage (Editor)
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All Six Volumes In a Single File; According to the Preface, this book is Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches. This is the first of six volumes told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote. According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of show more Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States, and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 March 18, 1898 in Chicago) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was born with a hatred of oppression. Ida Husted Harper (February 18, 1851 March 14, 1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author and journalist who wrote primarily to document the movement and show support of its ideals. show lessTags
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- "GOVERNMENTS DERIVE THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED."
- Dedication
- These volumes are affectionately inscribed to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Marie Child, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing [sic], M... (show all)artha C. Wright, Harriot [sic] K. Hunt, M.D., Mariana W. Johnson, Alice and Phebe [sic] Carey, Ann Preston, M.D., Lydia Mott, Eliza W. Farnham, Lydia F. Fowler, M.D., [and] Paulina Wright Davis, whose earnest lives and fearless words, in demanding political rights for women, have been, in the preparation of these pages, a constant inspiration to the editors.
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction
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- 324.3 — Social sciences Political science The political process Party Appendages
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- JK1896 .S8 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (United States) Political institutions and public administration United States Political rights. Practical politics Suffrage
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