Not for Ourselves Alone

The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony : an Illustrated History

Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
ISBN: 9780375405600

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten. Stanton and Anthony were close friends, partners, and allies, but judging from their backgrounds they would seem an unlikely pair. Stanton was born into the prominent Livingston clan in New York, grew up wealthy, educated, and sociable, married and had a large family of her own. Anthony, raised in a devout Quaker environment, worked to support herself her whole life, elected to remain single, and devoted herself to progressive causes, initially Temperance, then Abolition. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes

Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Publish Date: 1999

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical, History / United States / 19th Century, Political Science / Civil Rights

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