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HISTORY
of
Woman Suffrage.
EDITED BY
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON,
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, AND
MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH STEEL ENGRAVINGS.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
1848-1861.
"GOVERNMENTS DERIVE THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED."
Second Edition.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann.
London: 25 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
Paris. G. Fischbacher, 33 Rue de Seine.
1889.
Copyright, 1881, by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and
Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Copyright, 1887, by Susan B. Anthony.
THESE VOLUMES
ARE
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
TO THE
Memory of
Mary Wollstonecraft,
Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Maria Child,
Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing,
Martha C. Wright, Harriot K. Hunt, M.D., Mariana W. Johnson,
Alice and Phebe Carey, Ann Preston, M.D., Lydia Mott,
Eliza W. Farnham, Lydia F. Fowler, M.D.,
Paulina Wright Davis,
Whose Earnest Lives and Fearless Words, in Demanding
Political Rights for Women, have been,
in the Preparation of these Pages,
a Constant Inspiration
TO
The Editors.
PREFACE.
In preparing this work, our object has been to put into permanentshape the few scattered reports of the Woman Suffrage Movement stillto be found, and to make it an arsenal of facts for those who arebeginning to inquire into the demands and arguments of the leaders ofthis reform. Although the continued discussion of the political rightsof woman during the last thirty years, forms a most important link inthe chain of influences tending to her emancipation, no attempt at itshistory has been made. In giving the inception and progress of thisagitation, we who have undertaken the task have been moved by theconsideration that many of oar co-workers have already fallen asleep,and that in a few years all who could tell the story will have passedaway.
In collecting material for these volumes, most of those of whom wesolicited facts have expressed themselves deeply interested in ourundertaking, and have gladly contributed all they could, feeling thatthose identified with this reform were better qualified to prepare afaithful history with greater patience and pleasure, than those ofanother generation possibly could.
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