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- Collection: Helen LaKelly Hunt Collection of American Women Reformers and Writers
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"Common Sense" Applied to Woman Suffrage; a statement of the reasons which justify the demand to extend the suffrage to women, with consideration of the arguments against such enfranchisement, and with special reference to the issue presented to the New York State convention of 1894.
In this text Dr. Jacobi traces the history of the American suffrage movement and offers persuasive arguments for the cause. She notes the inequities of the present social and political state and offers suffrage as the remedy.
"The Eleventh Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair"
The broadside solicits the assistance of women throughout the state for the 1844 annual antislavery fair to take place the following December 24th: "If you wish slavery to cease, you cannot more effectually aid in its extinction, than by upholding…
A Letter from Elizabeth Webb to Anthony William Boehm, With His Answer
Elizabeth Webb was an acknowledged Quaker minister. In 1712, she became acquainted with Anthony William Boehm, to whom she wrote of her spiritual and corporeal journeys. Bohem, was so impressed that he circulated this it among the court and into the…
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin] was a British teacher and writer. Her path-breaking feminist manifesto argued for the spiritual and rational equality of women and was extremely influential in years to come, on both sides of the Atlantic. She argued that…
Abby Smith and Her Cows, with a report of the law case decided contrary to law
Abby (1797-1878) and Julia Smith (1792-1886) were two of five daughters born to Zephaniah Hollister Smith, a minister in a Christian sect founded in Scotland. At a Glastonbury town meeting in 1873, Abby Smith delivered a spirited protest against the…
Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers
The Reverend Olympia Brown was the first woman to be ordained by the Northern Universalist Denomination. In 1866 she helped found the American Equal Rights Association and in that same year called for a convention in November that led to the…
American Chivalry
Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman was the daughter of Elizabeth Buffum Chace and wife of John Crawford Wyman. This first edition contains first-hand biographical profiles of active members of the anti-slavery movement.
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child was a noted abolitionist, women's rights advocate, scholar and popular author. This publication was the first book of the American abolitionist movement, and it is one of the key documents in the movement.
An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. Vol. I. No. 2
Abolitionist and woman's rights pioneer Angelina Grimke was a member of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and the first of the Grimke sisters to join the abolition movement.