Book/Printed Material Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement : a general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774, to 1881 National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy National American Woman Suffrage Association SECTION I NUMBER 107 MASSACHUSETTS IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT By H. H. Robinson, 1883- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy Regard of Harriet H. Robinson Oct ‘83 From the Library of Ramona & Joseph Barth 234 Bellevue St. Newton, Mass- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy MASSACHUSETTS IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy In the administration of a State, neither a woman as a woman, nor a man as a man, has any special function, but the fits are equally diffused in the both sexes....- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy MASSACHUSETTS IN THE Woman Suffrage Movement. A GENERAL, POLITICAL, LEGAL AND LEGISLATIVE HISTORY FROM 1774, TO 1881. BY HARRIET H. ROBINSON. The woman's hour has struck.— “Warrington.” SECOND EDITION. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS....- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy Copyright, 1881, BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CONTENTS. Chapter. Page. Introduction ix I. General History—Early Influences I II. Ten Great Conventions. 1850—1860 20 III. The Machinery of Conventions 1860—1881 41 IV. Political History. 1870—1880 68 V. Legal and Legislative...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy TO THE YOUNG WOMEN OF MASSACHUSETTS WHO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THE LABORS OF THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE RECORDED IN THESE PAGES I Dedicate this Book WITH THE HOPE THAT SINCE THEY...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy INTRODUCTION. The writing of this book has been a labor of love; and I publish it in the hope that it may be found useful as a book of reference, and also,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy x leaves the procession, remains inactive for a period of years, or dies, he and his work are very soon forgotten. Already, the names of many of those who helped to lead...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy xi workers. To all the friends who have aided me in collecting material, I desire to express my thanks. I am especially grateful to Louisa M. Alcott and Wendell Phillips for their...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. — Longfellow.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy MASSACHUSETTS IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. CHAPTER I. GENERAL HISTORY—EARLY INFLUENCES. 1774—1850. We want powder, but by the blessing of Heaven we fear them not. Abigail Adams, in 1774. In this brief...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 Adams, wife of our first President Adams, who, in a letter written to her husband, in 1774, at the time the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, said: “In the new...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 that I think you are very generous to the ladies, for, while you are proclaiming peace and good will to all men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining absolute power...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 10 this date, and until 1828, there is no record to be found, of any public expression here upon this subject. In 1828 Frances Wright, an educated Scotch-woman, came to this country...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 11 women in the State. As agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Abby Kelly followed in the footsteps of Angelina Grimké; speaking to the people, in school houses churches, upon the horrors...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 12 Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society), and in spite of its interdict, Abby Kelly, and Sarah and Angelina Grimké continued to speak in public, and bring the rights of their sex more and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 and vote in Conventions; one of which was, that such an “irrelevant innovation” would be “injurious to the cause of the slave.” By aa strange anomaly, one of the seven signers...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 At the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, held in 1840, a similar scene was enacted. The women delegates from America were refused seats in the Convention, and this “insane innovation, this woman-intruding delusion,”...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 Standard, which she edited, began to infuse into the public mind a little leaven of this doctrine. Abby Kelley never failed, in her speeches upon the Anti-Slavery platform, to make a...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 struck the key-note of the whole question. She wrote: “We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man....- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 Lowell Offering, * edited by Harriot F. Curtis and Harriet Farley. Not only was this publication edited, but all its contributions were written by young women, actively employed in the Lowell...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 quarters of a century since the first Massachusetts woman had dared offer a gentle plea for the rights of her sex. The time had come when the voices of many women,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 In May, 1850, a third Woman's Rights Convention was held in Salem, Ohio. It was quit well attended and its proceedings were discussed in the columns of the New York Tribune....- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 CHAPTER II. GENERAL HISTORY CONTINUED. TEN GREAT CONVENTIONS. 1850—1860. “If there be a word of truth in history, women have been always and still are, over the greater part of the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 21 and Eliza J. Taft. The call was issued, signed by the names of prominent men and women from Massachusetts and different parts of the United States. * * For call, and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 Lloyd Garrison, C.C. Burleigh, W.H. Channing and Stephen S. Foster. Among the women who spoke were Abby Kelley Foster, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Antoinette L. Brown (whom the newspapers called a...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 had come long distances to listen, or be converted to the new doctrine of woman's rights and duties. What sacrifices, domestic and social, did not some of these devoted souls make,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 The newspapers of our own State did not follow the lead of the great English Quarterly in its treatment of the new movement, but found this “Hen Convention,” as they jocosely...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 The central idea of the Woman's Rights movement was supposed to be a desire on the part of some women to wear men's clothes, and learn to crow; but whether like...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 Mann, Angelina Grimké Weld, Oliver Johnson, Frances D. Gage and others. Among the letters received from over the ocean was one sent by Jeanne Deroine and Pauline Roland, two French Socialists,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 those pioneer workers in order that such a gathering of women could be possible, said, in her inspiring tones: “I do not rise to make a speech; my life has been...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 28 leaders, to bear the obloquy incident to the movement, and to be considered the typical Woman's Rights advocates as illustrated in the burlesque drama, or in caricature. “Susan B.” is par...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 29 Lucretia Mott presided. Conspicuous among the new names of speakers and workers were those of Rev. John Pierpont, Caroline M. Severance and John C. Cluer. Madame Anneke, a German lady, editor...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 30 Association of Illinois, showing the gratifying progress of public opinion on this question in that State. In 1851-52, Indiana, Pennsylvania and others of the States, had begun to follow the good...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 31 to E. R. Hoar, President of the Concord (Mass) celebration of 1850, may be found the following: “In the recent Female Declaration of Independence, framed and signed by the immortal thirty-two...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 32 was characteristic of her social condition. And he advised any gentleman present, who did not agree with him ass to the cramped condition in which woman was placed, even in the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 33 her long dresses just below the knee and with the material thus gained, she made Turkish trowsers, and this, with the addition of a short sack, completed the suit. Afterwards, by...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
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Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 34 London Punch thought the “American Bloomerites” worthy the attention of its artist. The reform dress though worn several years by leading and progressive women, was finally done to death like many...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson
- Date: 1883