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]