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The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, Containing Thoroughly Tested and Reliable recipes for Cooking, Directions for the Care of the Sick, and Practical Suggestions.
The Woman Suffrage Cook Book contains recipes by more than 164 different women. Copies of this cookbook were sold to raise funds for the suffrage movement, and put the words of its leaders in the homes of everyday housewives. A carefully curated…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by L. Maria Child
The first slave narrative written by a woman.
Anti-Slavery Reminiscences
Elizabeth Buffum Chace (1806-1899) was a suffragist and anti-slavery advocate. She and her husband conducted an Underground Railroad station from 1840 on in Valley Falls, R.I. She helped sponsor the first Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, 1850.…
Two Quaker Sisters, with an Introduction by Malcolm R Lovell Foreword by Rufus M Jones
Original diaries of Elizabeth and Lucy provide insight into their involvement with the antislavery movement.
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.
Women Builders
First edition inscribed by Mary McLeod Bethune. This work features the biographies of seven African-American women who were pioneers in education, financial and social institutions.
Peace and Bread in Time of War
Jane Addams, settlement founder, social reformer, suffragist and peace worker, was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize, awarded in 1931. Addams participated in the founding of the NAACP as well as of the ACLU. She served as the first vice…
The History of Woman Suffrage
In the late 1870's, Susan B. Anthony, fearing that the history of the struggle for women's rights was lost, asked Mrs. Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage to join her in writing this important source. The books contain first-hand accounts as well as…
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Woman and Including the Triumphs of Her Last Years, Account of Her Death and Funeral and Comments of the Press A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Woman in Three Volumes. Three Volumes.
Ida Husted Harper (1851-1931) collaborated with Susan B. Anthony on an account of her life and the suffrage movement. Harper moved into Anthony’s New York home to compile these volumes.
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.