to quote from Susan B. Anthony's diaries and from her letters and manuscripts.
Ida Husted Harper's Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, written in collaboration with Susan B. Anthony, and the History of Woman Suffrage, compiled by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper, have been invaluable. As many of the letters and documents used in the preparation of these books were destroyed, they have preserved an important record of the work of Susan B. Anthony and of the woman's rights movement.
I am especially grateful to Martha Taylor Howard for her unfailing interest and for the use of the valuable Susan B. Anthony Memorial Collection which she initiated and developed in Rochester, New York; and to Una R. Winter for her interest and for the use of her Susan B. Anthony Collection, most of which is now in the Henry E. Huntington Library.
I thank Edna M. Stantial for permission to examine and quote from the Blackwell Papers; Anna Dann Mason for permission to read her reminiscences and the many letters written to her by Susan B. Anthony; Ellen Garrison for permission to quote from letters of Lucretia Mott and Martha C. Wright; Eleanor W. Thompson for copies of Susan B. Anthony's letters to Amelia Bloomer; Henry R. Selden II whose grandfather was Susan B. Anthony's lawyer during her trial for voting; Judge John Van Voorhis whose grandfather was associated with Judge Selden in Miss Anthony's defense; William B. Brown for information about the early history of Adams, Massachusetts, the Susan B. Anthony birthplace, and the Friends Meeting House in Adams; Dr. James Harvey Young for information about Anna E. Dickinson; Margaret Lutz Fogg for help in connection with the trial of Susan B. Anthony; Dr. Blake McKelvey, City Historian of Rochester; Clara Sayre Selden and Wheeler Chapin Case of the Rochester Historical Society; the grand-nieces of Susan B. Anthony, Marion and Florence Mosher; Matilda Joslyn Gage II; Florence L. C. Kitchelt; and Rose Arnold Powell.
I thank The Christian Science Monitor for permission to use portions of an article published on October 24, 1958.
I am especially grateful to A. Marguerite Smith for her constructive criticism of the manuscript and her unfailing encouragement.
ALMA LUTZ
Highmeadow Berlin, New York
TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUAKER HERITAGE 1
WIDENING HORIZONS 15
FREEDOM TO SPEAK 28
A PURSE OF HER OWN 39
NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS 56
THE TRUE WOMAN 67
THE ZEALOT 79
A WAR FOR FREEDOM 92
THE NEGRO'S HOUR 108
TIMES THAT TRIED WOMEN'S SOULS 125
HE ONE WORD OF THE HOUR 138
WORK, WAGES, AND THE BALLOT 149
THE INADEQUATE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT 159
A HOUSE DIVIDED 169
A NEW SLANT ON THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 180
TESTING THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 198
"IS IT A CRIME FOR A CITIZEN ... TO VOTE?" 209
SOCIAL PURITY 217
A FEDERAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT 226
RECORDING WOMEN'S HISTORY 235
IMPETUS FROM THE WEST 241
VICTORIES IN THE WEST 252
LIQUOR INTERESTS ALERT FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE 266
AUNT SUSAN AND HER GIRLS 274
PASSING ON THE TORCH 285
SUSAN B. ANTHONY OF THE WORLD 299
NOTES 311
BIBLIOGRAPHY 327
INDEX 335
TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Susan B. Anthony at the age of thirty-five Frontispiece (From a daguerrotype, courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.)
Daniel Anthony, father of Susan B. Anthony 2 (From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper)
Lucy Read Anthony, mother of Susan B. Anthony 3 (From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper)
Susan B. Anthony Homestead, Adams, Massachusetts 5 (The Smith Studio, Adams, Massachusetts)
Frederick Douglass 22
Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her "Bloomer costume" 27 (From The Lily)
Lucy Stone 29 (From Lucy Stone by Alice Stone Blackwell. Courtesy Little, Brown and Company)
Susan B. Anthony at the age of thirty-four 31 (Courtesy Susan B. Anthony Memorial, Inc., Rochester, New York)
James and Lucretia Mott 33 (From James and Lucretia Mott by Anna D. Hallowell. Courtesy Houghton Mifflin Company)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her son, Henry 40
Ernestine Rose 42 (From History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage)
Parker Pillsbury 49 (From William Lloyd Garrison by His Children)
Merritt Anthony 57 (Courtesy Mrs. Ann Anthony Bacon)
Susan B. Anthony, 1856 68 (Courtesy Mrs. Ann Anthony Bacon)
Lucy Stone and her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell 72 (Courtesy Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California)
William Lloyd Garrison 86 (From William Lloyd Garrison and His Times by Oliver Johnson)
Susan B. Anthony 97
Daniel Anthony, brother of Susan B. Anthony 110 (Courtesy Mrs. Ann Anthony Bacon)
Wendell Phillips 114 (From William Lloyd Garrison by His Children)
George Francis Train 132 (Courtesy New York Public Library)
Anna E. Dickinson 144 (From History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage)
Paulina Wright Davis 165
Isabella Beecher Hooker 167
Victoria C. Woodhull 181
Susan B. Anthony, 1871 187 (Courtesy Mrs. Ann Anthony Bacon)
Judge Henry R. Selden 203 (Courtesy Henry R. Selden II)
"The Woman Who Dared" 206 (New York Daily Graphic, June 5, 1873)
Aaron A. Sargent 229 (Courtesy Library of Congress)
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