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The Independent
The Independent was an important voice in support of abolitionism, women’s suffrage, and other progressive causes. Under special contributors, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe penned an article entitled “The President’s Message” in which Stowe wrote…
A key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work
After receiving accusations of misrepresenting slavery in her earlier publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe published this work to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in her novel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe [Cabinet Card]
Cabinet card bearing a near profile bust portrait of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The Woman’s Bible [Broadside]
"This is the teaching of National Suffrage Leaders. Are you willing for women who hold these views to become political powers in our country?" Published in 1895, The Woman’s Bible attempted to redefine references pertaining to women and the denial of…
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” The American Monthly Review of Reviews, XXVI
Ida Husted Harper was an American author, journalist, columnist, and suffragist. In 1896, Harper joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The next year, Susan B. Anthony asked Harper to come to New York to write her official…
“An Expurgated Bible,” Free Thought Magazine, December 1902
Vol. XX, No. 12. of Free Thought Magazine featuring an article authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton titled “An Expurgated Bible.” “…I suggest that inasmuch as the Bible degrades women, and in innumerable passages teachers her absolute subjection to man…
Advertisement for Fairy Soap appearing in Cosmopolitan Magazine
Black and white advertisement for Fairbanks "Fairy Soap, " with a headshot of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and her personal review of the product, published by the NK Fairbank Company.
“Suffrage a Natural Right,” The Open Court, February 1, 1894
Susan B. Anthony read this this speech, written by Stanton, before the final session of World’s Congress on Government. The lecture did not appear in print until Open Court published it as an article in 1894, and reprinted it as a pamphlet.
“An Appeal to the Women of New York,” The Freethinkers’ Magazine
In the summer of 1894, New York State held a convention to revise its Constitution. In her article Stanton calls upon the women of New York to demand suffrage. “If the women of this State understood the significance of this right of suffrage, they…
Elizabeth Cady Stanton [carte de visite]
Portrait of Stanton taken by artist Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896). Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was the daughter of a lawyer and shaped by her father who desired another son. She became interested in abolitionism, temperance, and the women’s…