LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.


Vol. I.


Frances Wright[Frontispiece]
Ernestine L. Wright[page 97]
Frances D. Gage[129]
Clarina Howard Nichols[193]
Paulina Wright Davis[273]
Lucretia Mott[369]
Antoinette L. Brown[449]
Amelia Bloomer[497]
Susan B. Anthony[577]
Martha C. Wright[641]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton[721]
Matilda Joslyn Gage[753]

INTRODUCTION.


The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. A survey of the condition of the race through those barbarous periods, when physical force governed the world, when the motto, "might makes right," was the law, enables one to account, for the origin of woman's subjection to man without referring the fact to the general inferiority of the sex, or Nature's law.