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Sarah PughThis is the Pennsylvania AntiSlavery Society in 1851. You might recognize Lucretia Mott, front row in the bonnet between her husband James and Robert…
#MenOfSuffrage#MenOfSuffrage Not a pin-up calendar--though maybe it should be. It's a guest post! Stay tuned for a terrific thread by Hélène Quanquin @HQuanquin…
Higher ed.Second & third generation suffragists had much more access to formal education than the women who came before them. Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church…
More abolitionist patriarchiesElizCadyStanton’s feminism was ignited watching her mentor Lucretia Mott be denied credentials at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840.…
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…
Another Harriet you should knowYes, they had a bake sale. Black & white men & women didn’t share public space in the 1830s. Female Anti-Slavery Societies were an…
Abolitionist patriarchy, part ISexism in the abolitionist movement planted one of the seeds for Seneca Falls. In 1840 the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London refused to seat…
A promiscuous meetingDay 1 was for women only. Lucretia Mott ran the meeting; ElizCadyStanton presented the Declaration for discussion & amendment. On the 2d day she…
Female Anti-Slavery Convention in New YorkThe National Female Anti-Slavery Convention in 1837 was the 1st convention where women discussed women's rights. Delegates traveled to NYC for 4 days…