Law --United States --Periodicals.
Secession
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
United States --Politics and government
United States --Politics and government --Periodicals.]]>
This issue includes a debate on an amendment to an internal tax bill, proposed by Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, "that any person who shall claim the service or labor for life of any other person under the laws of any State shall pay, on account of such person so claimed, the sum of ten dollars." The amendment was later rejected.]]>
Election
Golden, Mittie Josephine
Hamilton, Emma K.
Johnson, Carrie
Kansas--Politics and government
Lowman, Mary D.
Morse, Hanna P.
New York (N.Y.)--Newspapers
United States--Kansas--Oskaloosa]]>

The pages include portraits of Oskaloosa and new Mayor, Mrs. Mary D. Lowman, and the Common Council comprised of five women.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newsletter, a weekly literary and news publication, was published from 1855 to 1922.]]>
Labor movement --United States
Political parties --United States
Progressive Party (1912)
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
United States --Politics and government]]>
Volume 3, No. 7. January, 1930]]> Political science
United States--Politics and government--Periodicals
Women in politics--Societies, etc.]]>

The League of Women Voters was founded by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1920 during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 6 months before the ratification of the 19th amendment. The League began as a "mighty political experiment" designed to help 20 million women carry out their new responsibilities as voters. It encouraged them to participate in shaping public policy and to become political, by educating citizens about, and lobbying for, government and social reform legislation.]]>
Antislavery movements
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Slavery--United States--Controversial literature]]>

"Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" by A.E. Grimke. In this essay, Angelina Grimke urges Southern women to use their influence on the men in their lives to fight against slavery.]]>
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements -- United States -- Newspapers
Leavitt, Joshua, 1794-1873, Editor
New York (N.Y.) -- Newspapers
Slavery--United States--Periodicals]]>

In December 1841 the Free American, the official paper of the Massachusetts Abolition Society, merged with the Emancipator and the editors renamed it the Emancipator and Free American.

The Emancipator ran for 18 years and became one of the most widely circulated antislavery newspapers in the country.]]>
American Anti-Slavery Society
Antislavery movements
Antislavery movements --United States --Newspapers
New York (N.Y.) --Newspapers
Philadelphia (Pa.) --Newspapers
Slavery--United States--Periodicals]]>

The Lewis collection includes the following issues:
Volume 3, No. 32, January 12, 1843
Volume 3, No. 34, January 26, 1843
Volume 3, No. 35, February 2, 1843
Volume 3, No. 36, February 9, 1843
Volume 3, No. 37, February 16, 1843
Volume 3, No. 38, February 23, 1843
Volume 3, No. 39, March 2, 1843
Volume 3, No. 40, March 9, 1843
Volume 3, No. 42, March 23, 1843
Volume 3, No. 48, May 4, 1843]]>
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.]]> Child, David Lee, 1794-1874, Assistant Editor.]]>
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Portland (Me.)--Newspapers
Portland Transcript
Westbrook (Me.)--Newspapers]]>

This issue contains an article entitled "Nathaniel Hawthorne on women's rights." In his short statement (p. 221) the author contends that women should remain within their own proper sphere: "Her place is at man's side. Her office, that of sympathizer; the unreserved, unquestioning believer . . . . The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it."]]>
Boston (Mass.) -- Newspapers
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843
Suffolk County (Mass.) -- Newspapers
The Liberator]]>

Over its 35 year run, Garrison published 1,820 issues, ending in 1865 after the end of the Civil War. This issue was the newspaper's final issue. It includes a poem by a woman identified as Carrie from Brooklyn, New York, entitled "A Farewell to the Liberator." There are also tributes to Garrison and to the paper.
]]>
Knapp, Isaac, 1804-1843]]> J.B. Yerrinton & Son, Printers]]>
Bullard, Laura Curtis
Clarke, W.T.
Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Women--Suffrage--Periodicals]]>

The Lewis Collection includes the following issues:
Vol. 3, no. 24, whole no. 76, June 17, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 3, whole no. 81, July 22, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 4, whole no. 82. July 29, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 6, whole no. 84. August 12, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 7, whole no. 85. August 19, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 8, whole no. 86. August 26, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 9, whole no. 87. September 2, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 10, whole no. 88. September 9, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 11, whole no. 89. September 16, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 12, whole no. 90. September 23, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 13, whole no. 91. September 30, 1869 (2 copies)
Vol. 4, no. 14, whole no. 92. October 7, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 15, whole no. 93. October 14, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 19, whole no. 97. November 11, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 20, whole no. 80. November 18, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 22, whole no. 100. December 2, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 23, whole no. 101. December 9, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 24, whole no. 102. December 16, 1869
Vol. 4, no. 25, whole no. 103. December 23, 1869
Vol. 5, no. 5, whole no. 109. February 3, 1870
Vol. 5, no. 18, whole no. 122. May 5, 1870
Vol. 6, no. 2, whole no. 132. July 14, 1870
Vol. 6, no. 23, whole no. 153. December 8, 1870
Vol. 6, no. 24, whole no. 154. December 15, 1870
Vol. 6, no. 25, whole no. 155. December 22, 1870
Vol. 6, no. 26, whole no. 156. December 29, 1870
Vol. 7, no. 1, whole no. 157. January 5, 1871
Vol. 7, no. 2, whole no. 158. January 12, 1871
Vol. 7, no. 3, whole no. 159. January 19, 1871
Vol. 7, no. 5, whole no. 161. February 2, 1871
Vol. 7, no. 6, whole no. 162. February 9, 1871
Vol. 7, no 7, whole no. 163. February 16, 1871
Vol. 7, no. 8, whole no. 164. February 23, 1871
Vol. 8, no. 25, whole no. 207. December 30, 1871]]>