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Day 27 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mar. 27th, 2018 08:55 amElizabeth Cady Stanton
First, a few quotes by this amazing woman, whose words ring down through time:
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Elizabeth Cady’s father was an attorney and from a young age, she studied his law books and debated his clerks. She was also formally educated. She graduated from Johnstown Academy, and had to go to a women’s college because Union College, where many of her male classmates attended, did not allow women.
She was already working in the temperance and abolitionist movement when she met her husband and married. Henry Brewster Stanton was an abolitionist orator and activist and became an attorney as well after their marriage.
She had six children rather quickly (with a 7th one to follow later) and when she was at home caring for them was when she began to work with Susan B. Anthony on the speeches for conventions that Anthony spoke at. The two would work together for many years to come.
She did speak and travel to conventions as well, speaking out on abolition at first then women’s suffrage. She split from the other faction of the women’s suffrage movement and did not support the 14th and 15th Amendments because they only gave black men voting rights and equal protection under the law, not women.
Sojourner Truth allied herself with Stanton and Anthony.
She said this in 1892 in an address to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary:
"The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
First, a few quotes by this amazing woman, whose words ring down through time:
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
Elizabeth Cady’s father was an attorney and from a young age, she studied his law books and debated his clerks. She was also formally educated. She graduated from Johnstown Academy, and had to go to a women’s college because Union College, where many of her male classmates attended, did not allow women.
She was already working in the temperance and abolitionist movement when she met her husband and married. Henry Brewster Stanton was an abolitionist orator and activist and became an attorney as well after their marriage.
She had six children rather quickly (with a 7th one to follow later) and when she was at home caring for them was when she began to work with Susan B. Anthony on the speeches for conventions that Anthony spoke at. The two would work together for many years to come.
She did speak and travel to conventions as well, speaking out on abolition at first then women’s suffrage. She split from the other faction of the women’s suffrage movement and did not support the 14th and 15th Amendments because they only gave black men voting rights and equal protection under the law, not women.
Sojourner Truth allied herself with Stanton and Anthony.
She said this in 1892 in an address to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary:
"The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
