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  • Collection: Manuscripts

ALMS-1854-01-1 NY Legi address cover.jpg
Speech delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, discussing the legal position of women in American society. She argues for women's right to vote; married women's property rights; for the for the right of women to serve as jurors; for fair inheritance and…

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Series: Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 8

In this tract, author Eliza Follen makes a plea to mothers in free states that they have the power to abolish slavery.

Anti-slavery tracts were published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1855 and 1856.

ALMS-1855-02 How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery p1.jpg
Series : Anti-Slavery Tracts, No. 14

A plea for membership in the American Anti-Slavery Society, and for support for its work.

The Anti-slavery tracts, numbered 1-20, were published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1855 and 1856.

ALMS-1858-01a Should Women Vote Important Affirmative Authority (1).jpg
Testimonials in support of women's right to vote by important figures in the abolition and women's suffrage movements,

ALMS-1859-01 Slave Bill of Sale (1).jpg
The bill of sale for a 20-year old female slave named Phoebe from the estate of Thomas W. Huquay, deceased, by Matthew W. Locke and Delia Huquay.

Phoebe was sold by public auction to William J. Goodman, also of Lewis County, Arkansas for the sum…

ALMS-1859-04-1 Report of Woman's Rights Meeting at Mercantile Hall cover.jpg
This is a report of a meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, concerning women's rights in New England. Among the speakers were Wendell Philips, Caroline Dall, Harriot K. Hunt, Rev. John T. Sargent, and James Freeman Clarke.

The report makes…

ALMS-1859-02 Bound Copy of Report Woman's Rights Meeting at Mercantile Hall.jpg
This is a report of a meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, concerning women's rights in New England. Among the speakers were Wendell Philips, Caroline Dall, Harriot Hunt, James Freeman Clarke, and John T. Sargent.

The report makes reference…

ALMS-1859-03-1 Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet cover.jpg
Series: Woman's Suffrage Tracts No. 4 Reprint: The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1859 In this essay, Higginson argues for educational and professional opportunities for women: "First give woman, if you dare, the alphabet, then summon her to her career:…

DOCU-1860-01 Abolition Movement Philosophy.jpg
Series: Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 8. New Series

This is a reprint of a speech delivered to the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1853. Phillips discusses his belief that abolition is essential to perpetuate American democracy.
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