Elizabeth cady stanton biography facts records
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements, Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman’s rights that guided the struggle well into the 20th century.
Born on November 12, in Johnstown, New York, Stanton was the daughter of Margaret Livingston and Daniel Cady, Johnstown's most prominent citizens. She received her formal education at the Johnstown Academy and at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in New York. Her father was a noted lawyer and state assemblyman and young Elizabeth gained an informal legal education by talking with him and listening in on his conversations with colleagues and guests.
A well-educated woman, Stanton married abolitionist lecturer Henry Stanton in She, too, became active in the anti-slavery movement and worked alongside leading abolitionists of the day including Sarah and Angelina Grimke and William Lloyd Garrison, all guests at the
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Suffragist and abolitionist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, , in Johnstown, New York. She was a leader of the women&#;s rights movement and the driving force behind the first women&#;s rights convention in Seneca Falls in
Stanton came from a prominent family and was the daughter of a lawyer and assemblyman. Her long talks with her father gave her a good informal knowledge of the laws of the day.
In , Stanton married abolitionist lecturer Henry Stanton and often worked alongside him in the anti-slavery movement. While on their honeymoon in London in , Stanton attempted to attend the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention. However, the male delegates at the convention voted that women weren’t allowed to participate in the proceedings. It was at this time that Stanton met Lucretia Mott, who was also upset to be barred from the convention’s proceedings. The women were eventually allowed to sit in a roped-off section out of view of
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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,
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Florence Hazzard papers
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Author; Historian. Asmall collection of historian essays on women's history and famous women: Abigail Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Emma Willard, Lydia M. Child, Lucretia Mott, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Grimke sisters. There is also correspondence from Lucy Elmina Anthony ().
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Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History
Garrison family papers
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Abstract The Garrison Family Papers contain thousands of primary sources that document the family's involvement in politics, business, art, literature, religion, education, and most of the major reform movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These include abolition, anti-imperialism, anti-vaccination, conservation, free tra