Book/Printed Material The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850 National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CONTENTS Worchester, Mass. Convention 1850. Worchester, Mass. Convention, 1851. Cleveland, Ohio, Convention, 1853 New York, N.Y. Convention 1853. Speech of Wendall Phillips, 1859. Lucy Stone before New Jersy Legislature, 1867. Mrs. Stanton…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1851
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy EARLY WOMAN'S RIGHTS DOCUMENTS Early Woman's Rights Conventions held in Worcester, Massachusetts 1850 Worcester, Massachusetts 1851 Cleveland, Ohio 1853 Broadway Tabernacle, New York 1853 Wendell Phillips 1859 Letter by Horace Greeley Personal…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION, HELD AT WORCESTER. 1850. 12 BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY PRENTISS &; SAWYER, No. 11 Devonshire Street. 1851.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1851
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy BOSTON: PRENTISS AND SAWYER, PRINTERS, 11 DEVONSHIRE STREET.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy PROCEEDINGS. Pursuant to a call previously issued, a Convention to consider the Rights, Duties, and Relations of Women, met at Brinley Hall, Worcester, Mass., on Wednesday, October 23, at 10 o'clock. The…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1851
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 4 The upward tending spirit of the age, busy in a hundred forms of effort for the world's redemption from the sins and sufferings which oppress it, has brought this one, which…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 5 cruelly mark the condition of a disabled caste. But, by the inspiration of the Almighty, the beneficent spirit of reform is roused to the redress of these wrongs. The tyranny which…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 6 The President elect, Paulina W. Davis, took the Chair and offered the following ADDRESS. Usage assigns to the Chair of such Conventions as this, the duty of stating the objects of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 7 Those who prefer the end in view to all other things, are not contented with their own zeal and the discharge of their duty to their conscience. They desire the highest…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 destroying; and nothing of the spirit, tone, temper, or method of insurrection, is proper or allowable to us and our work. Human societies have been long working and fighting their way…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 method of Divine Providence, and among men the law of heaven is, that the “elder shall serve the younger.” But let us not complain that the hardier sex overvalue the force…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 10 views, nicer distinctions, and a deeper philosophy are required to see and feel the truths of woman's rights; and besides, the maxims upon which men distribute justice to each other have…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 11 few endowed with the highest intellect, the largest frame, or even the soundest morals, that the claim has been maintained, but broadly and bravely and nobly it has been held that…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 12 to prove it; and if some or a majority of women would not exercise this right, this is no ground for taking it from those who would. And the right to…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 becoming in ourselves, are courtesy and respectfulness. Strength and truth of complaint, and eloquence of denunciation, are easy of attainment; but the wisdom of affirmative principles and positive science, and the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 of Massachusetts; Lucretia Mott, of Pennsylvania; Lucy Stone, of Massachusetts; W.H. Channing, of Massachusetts; E.W. Capron, of Rhode Island; Abby H. Price, of Massachusetts; Wm. Fish, of Massachusetts, Samuel May, Jr.,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 Wendell Phillips, on behalf of the Business Committee, reported several resolutions, which were discussed by W. Phillips, E.L. Rose, L. Mott, A.K. Foster, J.N. Buffum, and S.S. Foster. The resolutions were…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 1. Education in primary and high schools, universities, medical, legal, and theological institutions, as comprehensive and exact as their abilities prompt them to seek, and their capabilities fit them to receive:…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 woman should make full use of the instruction already accorded to her, or that her career should do justice to her faculties, until the avenues to the various civil and professional…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and, with the other documents of the Convention, referred to the Central Committee for publication. Proceeds of the contributions, $ 119,65. Adjourned, sine die. CENTRAL COMMITTEE.…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL AVOCATIONS. CHARLES F. HOVEY, Boston, Mass., Chairman. PHILINDA JONES, Worcester, Mass., Secretary. HARRIET K. HUNT, Boston, Mass. ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, London, England. BENJAMIN S. TREANOR, Boston, Mass. EBENEZER D.…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 ADDRESS Read to the “Woman's Rights Convention,” at Worcester, by Mrs. Abby H. Price, of Hopedale, Mass. In our account of the work of Creation, when it was so gloriously finished…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 21 they are absolutely equal in their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — in their rights to do, and to be, individually and socially, all they are capable…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 an eternal inferiority. I say eternal, because development constitutes our greatness and our happiness. If we do not properly develope our human natures in this sphere of existence, it is a…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 and mothers,” those who are anxious of leading active and useful lives, of maintaining an honorable independence, a fair chance with men, to do all they can do with propriety? At…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 She is called upon loudly, by the progressive spirit of the age, to rise from the station where man, not God, has placed her, and to claim her rights as a…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 are driven to that course of life from necessity! M. Duchatelet, in his investigation in Paris, established this fact in the clearest manner. In his work, Vol. I., p. 96, we…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 seem to be considered far more out of the pale of humanity than negroes on a slave plantation, or felons in a Pasha's dungeon! It is thought to be discreditable to…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 to, as sustaining the present degree of dominion over her, and tortured to prove her inferiority. Thus the cause exists, and why may not the evil also? It does exist to…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 28 laugh, who should avow the design of having her daughter prepare herself to be a physician! All the education she is allowed, all the resources opened before her, have for their…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 29 less the plaything, and more a fit companion for man, — a truer and better wife and mother, more influential for good everywhere, in all the relations of life. Thus marriage,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 30 To suffer with pain, and to be exhausted with toil, are evils, doubtless very great afflictions, but from these we do not shrink, for they are the necessary consequences of life;…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 31 Why not? This follows as the climax of what we have contended for. There may be some offices more suitable to males than females, and let matters be arranged accordingly. These…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 32 one woman in a thousand feels the slightest interest in the subject. Are we willing forever to be thus disfranchised? The justice of this question was well stated by Condorcet, in…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 33 the administration of home. So far from these new functions interfering in the least with the sacred and holy duties of wife and mother they would be rather their reward and…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 34 If there is a woman who is willing to be in this position, I do not envy that woman her spirit, and no wonder that such mothers have dough-faced children. I…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 35 only to marriage? Are you willing they should be the prey of that sickly sentimentality, that effeminate weakness, which is produced by making that one idea the focus of life? Husbands,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 36 Soon in her garden of the sun Heaven's brightest rose shall bloom; For woman's best is unbegun! Her advent yet to come!” Peterboro', N. Y., Oct. 16, 1850. Wm. Lloyd Garrison,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 37 In China, her sphere is to drag the plough, while her husband sows the seed, and appropriates the crop. In India, her sphere is to be entirely subject to the will…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
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Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 38 But the intellectual inferiority of woman must not be assumed. How the fact is, I pretend not to say; for there has never been a fair trial of her intellectual strength.…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Woman's Rights Convention - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1851
About this Item
Title
- The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850
Summary
- This pamphlet includes addresses by Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Price, and Harriet K. Hunt.
Names
- Woman's Rights Convention (1850 : Worcester, Mass.)
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893, former owner
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Boston : Published by Prentiss & Sawyer, 1851.
Headings
- - Women's rights--United States--Congresses
- - Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States--Congresses
Notes
- - LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone.
- - Includes tipped-in typed table of contents.
- - Gift; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nov. 1, 1938.
- - LAC nsk 2019-08-27 no edits (3 cards)
- - Card indicates that there are 2 copies of JK1885 1848a in Susan B. Anthony Collection. LAC nsk 2019-09-05
- - LAC nsk 2019-09-05 no edits (1 card)
- - LAC tnb 2022-08-17 no edits (1 card)
- - LAC knj 2022-08-22 update (2 cards)
- - LAC knj 2022-09-03 update (2 cards)
Medium
- 84 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- JK1881 .N357 sec. I, no. 143, #1
- JK1885 1848a no. 4
- JK1885 1848c no. 4
- JK1888 1848 no. 5
- JK1885 1848d no. 6
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- 93838286
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- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Stone, Lucy
- Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Woman's Rights Convention