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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be called for the sole purpose of discussing women's rights, and was the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. Her demand for women's right to vote generated a controversy at the convention but quickly became a central tenet of the women's movement. She was also active in other social reform activities, especially abolitionism. In 1851, she met Susan B. Anthony and formed a decades-long partnership that was crucial to the development of the women's rights movement. During the American Civil War, they established the Women's Loyal National League to campaign for the abolition of slavery, and they led it in the largest petition drive in U.S. history up to that time. They started a newspaper called The Revolution in 1868 to work for women's rights. After the war, Stanton and Anthony were the main organizers of the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both African Americans and women, especially the right of suffrage. When the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced that would provide suffrage for black men only, they opposed it, insisting that suffrage should be extended to all African Americans and all women at the same time. Others in the movement supported the amendment, resulting in a split. During the bitter arguments that led up to the split, Stanton sometimes expressed her ideas in elitist and racially condescending language. In her opposition to the voting rights of African Americans Stanton was quoted to have said, "It becomes a serious question whether we had better stand aside and let 'Sambo' walk into the kingdom first." Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist friend who had escaped from slavery, reproached her for such remarks. Stanton became the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she and Anthony created to represent their wing of the movement. When the split was healed more than twenty years later, Stanton became the first president of the united organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association. This was largely an honorary position; Stanton continued to work on a wide range of women's rights issues despite the organization's increasingly tight focus on women's right to vote. Stanton was the primary author of the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, a massive effort to record the history of the movement, focusing largely on her wing of it. She was also the primary author of The Woman's Bible, a critical examination of the Bible that is based on the premise that its attitude toward women reflects prejudice from a less civilized age. Childhood and family background Elizabeth Cady was born into the leading family of Johnstown, New York. Their family mansion on the town's main square was handled by as many as twelve servants. Her conservative father, Daniel Cady, was one of the richest landowners in the state. A member of the Federalist Party, he was an attorney who served one term in the U.S. Congress and became a justice in the New York Supreme Court. Her mother, Margaret Cady (née Livingston), was more progressive, supporting the radical Garrisonian wing of the abolitionist movement and signing a petition for women's suffrage in 1867. She was described, at least earlier in her life, as "[n]early six feet tall, strong willed and self-reliant, ... She was the only person in the household not in awe of her husband who was 12 years her senior." Elizabeth was the seventh of eleven children, six of whom died before reaching full adulthood, including all of the boys. Her mother, exhausted by giving birth to so many children and the anguish of seeing so many of them die, became withdrawn and depressed. Tryphena, the oldest daughter, together with her husband Edward Bayard, assumed much of the responsibility for raising the younger children. In her memoir, Eighty Years & More, Stanton said there were three African-American manservants in her household when she was young. Researchers have determined that one of them, Peter Teabout, was a slave and probably remained so until all enslaved people in New York state were freed on July 4, 1827. Stanton recalled him fondly, saying that she and her sisters attended the Episcopal church with Teabout and sat with him in the back of the church rather than in front with the white families. Education and intellectual development Stanton received a better education than most women of her era. She attended Johnstown Academy in her hometown until the age of 15. The only girl in its advanced classes in mathematics and languages, she won second prize in the school's Greek competition and became a skilled debater. She enjoyed her years at the school and said she did not encounter any barriers there due to her gender. She was made sharply aware of society's low expectations for women when Eleazar, her last surviving brother, died at the age of 20 just after graduating from Union College in Schenectady, New York. Her father and mother were incapacitated by grief. The ten-year-old Stanton tried to comfort her father, saying she would try to be all her brother had been. Her father said, "Oh my daughter, I wish you were a boy!" Stanton had many educational opportunities as a young child. Their neighbor, Reverend Simon Hosack, taught her Greek and mathematics. Edward Bayard, her brother-in-law and Eleazar's former classmate at Union College, taught her philosophy and horsemanship. Her father brought her law books to study so she could participate in debates with his law clerks at the dinner table. She wanted to go to college, but no colleges at that time accepted female students. Moreover, her father initially decided she did not need further education. He eventually agreed to enroll her in the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York, which was founded and run by Emma Willard. In her memoirs, Stanton said that during her student days in Troy she was greatly disturbed by a six-week religious revival conducted by Charles Grandison Finney, an evangelical preacher and a central figure in the revivalist movement. His preaching, combined with the Calvinistic Presbyterianism of her childhood, terrified her with the possibility of her own damnation: "Fear of judgment seized my soul. Visions of the lost haunted my dreams. Mental anguish prostrated my health." Stanton credited her father and brother-in-law with convincing her to disregard Finney's warnings. She said they took her on a six-week trip to Niagara Falls during which she read works of rational philosophers who restored her reason and sense of balance. Lori D. Ginzberg, one of Stanton's biographers, says there are problems with this story. For one thing, Finney did not preac.... Discover the Elizabeth Cady Stanton popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elizabeth Cady Stanton books.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady StantonIncluding stories of her childhood, early writings and personal letters, this volume outlines the life of early women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. After witnessing...
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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Ann D. GordonTheir Place Inside the BodyPolitic is a phrase Susan B. Anthony used to express her aspiration for something women had not achieved, but it also describes the woman suffrage moveme...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lori D. GinzbergElizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activistintellectual. That nearly all of her ideasthat women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vot...
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The Solitude of Self
Vivian GornickElizabeth Cady Stantonalong with her comradeinarms, Susan B. Anthonywas one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick ar...
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History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. AnthonyHistory of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Matilda Joslyn Gage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony The labors of those who have edited these volumes are not only finished as far...
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Free Love
Robert Shaplen & Louis MenandA wry, instructive, and hugely entertaining account of “one of the most sensational trials in American history” (New York Times Book Review).On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth...
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Roses and Radicals
Susan Zimet & Todd Hasak-LowyThe United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the ...
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The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sue Davis2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleElizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902) was not only one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth century women’s rights movement but was als...
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Works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton2 works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement (18151902) This ebook presents a collection of 2 w...
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Suffrage
Ellen Carol DuBoisHonoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this “indispensable” book (Ellen Chesler, Ms. magazine) explores the full scope of the movement to win the...
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Frederick Douglass
David W. BlightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in History“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, t...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Connie Rose MillerA biography telling the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a staunch supporter of women's rights including women's right to vote. Written in graphicnovel format.
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The Greatest Works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentime...
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Getting our Voices Heard
DKInspires young learners to explore America’s government institutions through the nation’s history and the experience of modern AmericansPart of an inspiring series of books that wi...
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History of Woman Suffrage - Volume I
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & And Matilda Joslyn GageIn preparing this work, our object has been to put into permanent shape the few scattered reports of the Woman Suffrage Movement still to be found, and to make it an arsenal of fac...
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Laurel Thatcher UlrichFrom admired historianand coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogansLaurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.&...
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Breve historia de la mujer
Sandra Ferrer ValeroUn apasionante recorrido por el protagonismo de la mujer en el ámbito público y privado desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días. Su papel determinante en diferentes culturas y la ...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Penny ColmanWeaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a pageturning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship th...
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
Elaine ShowalterA “lively biography” (The New Yorker) of Julia Ward Howe, the powerful feminist pioneer and author of the Civil War anthem, “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”Julia Ward (1819–1910) was...
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The Lost Diaries of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sarah BatesJohnstown, New York, 1823: It is a time when a wife’s dowry, even children, automatically becomes her husband’s property. Slavery is an economic advantage entrenched in America but...
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She Came to Slay
Erica Armstrong DunbarIn the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American historyHarriet Tubmana heroi...
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The Trouble with White Women
Kyla Schuller & Brittney CooperAn incisive history of selfserving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied themWomen including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandber...
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The Woman Suffrage Statue
Sandra WeberRelegated to the Crypt of the Capitol building for 76 years, the Portrait Monument has stood in the Rotunda since 1997. Often referred to as the Suffrage Statue, it memorializes pi...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jeri CiprianoWhen Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a young girl she knew she could do anything her brothers could do. But the laws in the country said women were not equal to men. Elizabeth knew she ...
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The Greatest Works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentime...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker
Ellen Carol DuBois & Richard Cándida SmithMore than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still standsalong with her close friend Susan B. Anthonyas the major icon of the struggle for women’s suffrage. ...
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The Feminist Promise
Christine Stansell“A unique, elegant, learned sweep through more than two centuries of women’s efforts to overcome the most fundamental way that human beings have been wrongly divided into the leade...
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In Her Own Right
Elisabeth GriffithThe first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenthcentury America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth C...
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Formidable
Elisabeth Griffith“An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.”Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black a...
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Sisters
Jean H. BakerJean H. Baker's Sisters shows how the personal became political In the fight to grant women civil rights.They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady ...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law
Tracy A. ThomasThomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni AssociationMuch has been written about women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Hi...
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Freethinkers
Susan JacobyAn authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The...
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The Agitators
Dorothy WickendenAn LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist! “Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of t...
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The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Ann D. GordonThe “hush” of the title comes suddenly, when first Elizabeth Cady Stanton dies on October 26, 1902, and three years later Susan B. Anthony dies on March 13, 1906. It is sudden beca...