Pamphlet : Taxation of women in Massachusetts by William Bowditch. 1875
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Taxation--Massachusetts
Voting and Voting Rights
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Massachusetts
William Bowditch was a conveyancer, a lawyer specializing in buying and selling property, in Boston. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and served as a selectman and moderator of Town Meetings for a number of years. He was a well-known abolitionist who used his house to shelter fugitive slaves.
Bowditch was also a supporter of women's rights. In this article, he reviews taxation laws in Massachusetts and their impact on women, and points to the injustice of taxing women without enfranchising them.
Bowditch, William I. (William Ingersoll), 1819-1909
Cambridge, Mass. : J. Wilson and Son
1875
71 p. incl. tables
English
DOCU.1875.01
The Harvard Lampoon. Series II, Vol. VIII. October 17, 1884
Caricatures--1880-1890
Elections
Harvard University
Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917
National Equal Rights Party (U.S.)
Presidents-Election
Satire
Stow, Marietta L.B., 1830?-1902
Voting
Women political candidates
Women presidential candidates
Issue of The Harvard Lampoon featuring a cartoon reprinted from the XXXX, entitled, "The Woman's Rights Party will make great efforts to bring out their vote on Nov. 4th." The cartoon shows a group of men and women standing in line to vote. The tallest woman, carrying a broomstick, grabs the man in front of her by the ear. Behind her are a maid, holding a man-baby off to her side, and woman holding a man by the hair.
In 1884, a group of women organized a new political party, "The Equal Rights Party," and organized the first convention to nominate two women for office: Belva A. Lockwood for president and Marietta L. Stow, for Vice-President.
The Harvard Lampoon publication was founded in 1876 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The humor magazine was inspired by popular publications like Puck (1871) and Punch (1841).
Harvard University
Cambridge, Mass. : The Harvard Lampoon, Inc.
1884-10-17
English