Address to the Legislature of New York
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1854
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 25 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ReaderNortheastern University Press, 1992Ellen Carol DuBois's selection of the essential speeches and writings, with historical notes.
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A speech Stanton prepared for the New York State women's rights convention of February 1854 and presented to the state legislature with a petition of thousands of signatures. Taking the standing of woman as citizen, as wife, as widow and as mother in turn, she shows that women are taxed and tried without representation, that on marriage a wife loses her property, her earnings, her name and the custody of her children, and that widows are left dependent. She argues from the Declaration of Independence and the common law and demands the vote and legal equality. New York reformed its married women's property law in 1860.
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