rights activists were then able to bring together large numbers of women to fight for woman suffrage. 32
NOTES
1
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),
quoted in Miriam Gurko, The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman's
Rights Movement (New York: Schocken Books, 1974), 16.
2
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda J. Gage, eds., History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (1881; reprint, New York: Arno & The New
York Times, 1969), 35 (hereafter cited as HWS).
3
Stanton, et al., HWS, 514.
4
Stanton, et al., HWS, 259.
5
Stanton, et al., HWS, 36.
6
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1844), quoted in
Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the
United States (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1975), 67.
7
Maria Stewart, quoted in Ann D. Gordon, ed., African American
Women and the Vote, 1837–1965 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 1997), 27.
8
Maria Stewart, quoted in Flexner, Century of Struggle, 45.
9
Stanton, et al., HWS, 52–53.
10
Angelina E. Grimké, An Appeal to the Christian Women of the Southern
States (1836), cited in Larry Ceplair, ed., The Public Years of Sarah and
Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings, 1835–1839 (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1989), 55–56.
11
Jean V. Matthews, Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase,
1828–1876 (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997), 33.
12
“Pastoral Letter: The General Association of Massachusetts to the
Churches Under Their Care” (1837), in Ceplair, ed., The Public Years, 211.
13
Angelina E. Grimké to Theodore Dwight Weld, Aug. 12, 1837, in
Ceplair, ed., The Public Years, 277.
14
Angelina E. Grimké, Letters to Catherine [sic] E. Beecher, in reply to
An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, addressed to A. E. Grimké (1837), in
Ceplair, ed., The Public Years, 197.
15
Angelina E. Grimké to Theodore Dwight Weld and John Greenleaf
Whittier, August 20, 1837, in Ceplair, ed., The Public Years, 284. Gerda
Lerner, The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights
and Abolition (New York: Schocken Books, 1967).
16
Dorothy Sterling, Ahead of her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of
Anti-Slavery (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991), 38, 105.
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Book title: Votes for Women:The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited.
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Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
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