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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & Julia...
Born today in 1797, Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & her sister Julia Evelina Smith, (1792-1886). The sisters were American suffragists who relentlessly protested for their property & voting...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - The Grimke Sisters - Sarah 1792-1873...
Sarah Moor Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Emily Grimke (1805-1879), abolitionists and woman’s rights pioneers, were born in Charleston, South Carolina. Sarah was the 6th of 14 children, Angelina the...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Mary Ann M’Clintock 1800-1884
Mary Ann M’Clintock (1800-1884) was born to Quaker parents. She married Thomas M’Clintock, a druggist and fellow Quaker, in 1820, and they lived in Philadelphia for seventeen years. During that time...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Jane Clothier Master Hunt 1812-1889
Jane Clothier Master Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 1812, the daughter of William and Mary Master. Her marriage to Richard Pell Hunt in November 1845 brought her to Waterloo...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902) is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, and for the next fifty years played a leadership role in the women's rights movement. Somewhat...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - 1850 Letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Daughter, Harriot, Photograph taken circa 1890-1910 of a daguerreotype taken 1856.LETTER To Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1850.As you have handed...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 -...
Solitude of SelfAddress Delivered by Mrs. Stanton before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, Monday, January 18, 1892 Reprinted from the Congressional RecordElizabeth Cady...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880
One of 8 children born to Quaker parents on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) dedicated her life to the goal of human equality. As a child Mott attended Nine...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Abby Kelley Foster 1811-1887
“Go where least wanted, for there you are most needed.” A major figure in the national anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, she spent more than twenty years traveling the country as a tireless...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Martha Coffin Wright 1806-1875
Martha Coffin Wright (1806-75) was the youngest of 8 children; her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott was the second oldest. Throughout her life Martha worked in reform alongside her sister Lucretia Mott....
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Lucy Stone 1818-1893
Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights. She was born in Massachusetts. After she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, she began lecturing for the antislavery...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches,...
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Native American Women Gathering Rice by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Rice GatherersFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a variety of...
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Scalp Dance Of The Dakotas by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Scalp Dance Of The DakotasFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a...
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Sioux Men & Women Breaking Up Camp by Seth Eastman (1808-1875)
Seth Eastman (American artist, 1808-1875) Sioux Indians Breaking Up CampFrom Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a...
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Women's Rights & Bloomers - Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818-1894
Amelia Bloomer edited the first American newspaper for women, The Lily. It was issued from 1849 until 1853. The newspaper began as a temperance journal. Bloomer felt that as women lecturers were...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Evangelist Phoebe Worrall Palmer...
Phoebe Worrall Palmer (1807-1874) Born Phoebe Worrall on Dec. 11, 1807 in NYC to devout Methodist parents. In 1827, she married Walter Clarke Palmer, a 24 year old physician who was also a devout...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Mary Ann M’Clintock 1800-1884
Mary Ann M’Clintock (1800-1884) was born to Quaker parents. She married Thomas M’Clintock, a druggist and fellow Quaker, in 1820, and they lived in Philadelphia for seventeen years. During that time...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Abby Kelley Foster 1811-1887
“Go where least wanted, for there you are most needed.” A major figure in the national anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, she spent more than twenty years traveling the country as a tireless...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) A Winter IncidentCornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in Rotterdam &...
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