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A Black man, a white woman, and suffrage in 1850s AlbanyIn New York it is said that activists come to Albany, not from it. True or not, in the 1850s and today Albany has produced some truly marvelous…
The most significant manI’m chasing down a citation, so you’ll have to wait to hear from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, one of few Black women on the record in these debates.…
The New Departure - Mary Ann Shadd Cary & Frederick DouglassIn the spring of 1871, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass led at least 63 Black & white women to attempt to register to vote in Washington…
Who was & wasn't thereWe know Seneca Falls had a mixed-sex audience, which was still rare. Susan B Anthony wasn't there: she didn’t join the movement until a few years…
The FreemanMary Ann Shadd Cary edited The Freeman in Canada. She moved there in 1850s to protest Fugitive Slave Act. Post-Civil War she returned & entered Howard…