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US Women Fighting for 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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US Women Fighting for 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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US Women Fighting for Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815-1902 - Solitude...
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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US Women Fighting for 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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US Women Fighting for Equality - A few words from Sarah Grimke 1792-1873 &...
Wood cut of Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) date of image is unknown. Library of CongressTwo early and prominent activists for abolition and women’s rights, Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimke Weld...
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US Women Fighting for 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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US Women Fighting for 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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Fighting for Equality - Paulina W Davis' Address 1850 Women's Rights Convention
.Paulina W DavisThis leaves me at liberty to occupy your attention for a few moments with some general reflections upon the attitude and relations of our movement to our times and circumstances, and...
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Fighting for 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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Fighting for Equality - Call to the 1st US Women's Rights Convention 1850
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the National Portrait GalleryA CONVENTIONWill be held at Worcester, Mass., on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of October next, (agreeably to appointment by a preliminary...
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Fighting for Equality - The Women's Rights movement & the Anti-Slavery movement
Neither Ballots nor Bullets: The Contest for Civil Rights"Women can neither take the Ballot nor the Bullet . . .therefore to us, the right to petition is the one sacred right which we ought not to...
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Ex-slave Lizzie Jones Remembers 19C America
Ex-slave Lizzie Jones, about 86 years oldLizzie remembered, "The slaves slep' on bunks of homemade boa'ds nailed to the wall, wid poles fer legs. They cooked on the fire-place. I did'n know what a...
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Fighting for Equality - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Daughter, Harriot, Photograph taken circa 1890-1910 of a daguerreotype taken 1856.Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), abolitionist and women's rights activist, lived for a...
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Fighting for Equality - Evangelist Phoebe Worrall Palmer (1807-1874)
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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Ex-slave Siney Bonner Remembers 19C America
Ex-slave Siney BonnerSiney related,"Yes suh, we was all Baptis' - de deep water kind, and every Sunday dey used to pile us into de waggins and pull out bright and early for Big Creek Church on the...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West encountering a variety of Indigenous Peoples who had lived on the land for centuries....
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Ex-slave Amy Chapman, about 94, Remembers 19C America
Amy recounted, "One day Marse Reuben come home an' when he foun' out dat de overseer was mean to de slaves he commence to give him a lecture, but when Miss Ferlicia tuk a han' in de business, she...
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Ex-slave Tempie Cummins Remembers 19C America
Tempie remembered,"Mother was workin' in the house, and she cooked too. She say she used to hide in the chimney corner and listen to what the white folks say. When freedom was 'clared, marster wouldn'...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) J B Jolifou, AubergisteCornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and studied in Rotterdam &...
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Ex-slave Louise Mathews, about 83, Remembers 19C America
Louise remembered, "Marster Turner am very reasonable 'bout de wo'k. He wants a good days wo'k, an' all de cullud fo'ks gives it to him. Weuns had Saturday afternoons off, an' co'se, Sundays too. Weuns...
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