Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774, to 1881Roberts Brothers, 1883 - 265 pages Harriet Hanson was a Lowell mill operative in the 1830s and 1840s when she wrote "Loom and Spindle." In 1848, she married William Stevens Robinson, editor of the "Lowell Courier." After the Civil War both Harriet and her husband became steadfast supporters of woman suffrage. This book by Robinson deals with the woman suffrage campaign in Massachusetts from 1774 to 1881. The writing is rather dry, but it includes a very good 88-page appendix containing a detailed description of the Lowell Mill; accounts of various attempts by women to gain limited access to voting rights; and statistical information on women's employment. |
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... interest excited in England by the Worcester Convention of 1850 , and she also expressed her profound sympathy with the new movement . It was at this Convention of 1851 , that Abby Kelley Foster made the speech containing the little ...
... interest excited in England by the Worcester Convention of 1850 , and she also expressed her profound sympathy with the new movement . It was at this Convention of 1851 , that Abby Kelley Foster made the speech containing the little ...
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... interest in the movement had drawn together . The speakers were Lucy Stone , James Freeman Clarke , Harriot K. Hunt , Mr. Phillips , Mr. Garrison , Abby Kelley Foster , William I. Bowditch and many others . Sarah H. Earle of Worcester ...
... interest in the movement had drawn together . The speakers were Lucy Stone , James Freeman Clarke , Harriot K. Hunt , Mr. Phillips , Mr. Garrison , Abby Kelley Foster , William I. Bowditch and many others . Sarah H. Earle of Worcester ...
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... interest in public events ; and some who before the war had not thought upon the matter , began to ask themselves why thousands of ignorant men should be made voters , and they , or their sex , still kept in bond- age under the law ...
... interest in public events ; and some who before the war had not thought upon the matter , began to ask themselves why thousands of ignorant men should be made voters , and they , or their sex , still kept in bond- age under the law ...
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... interest in the suffrage question . Many good and well remembered speeches were made . Henry Wilson avowed his ... interest in the com- munity , and in spirit resembled the old Anti- Slavery Conventions . Slavery had long been abolished ...
... interest in the suffrage question . Many good and well remembered speeches were made . Henry Wilson avowed his ... interest in the com- munity , and in spirit resembled the old Anti- Slavery Conventions . Slavery had long been abolished ...
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... interests of the cause could best be furthered by depending on its action . The women were , however , mistaken , as they have since found out , and they have learned to look upon the famous resolution in its true light . It is now ...
... interests of the cause could best be furthered by depending on its action . The women were , however , mistaken , as they have since found out , and they have learned to look upon the famous resolution in its true light . It is now ...
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Page 160 - Though Somnus in Homer be sent to rouse up Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer were but to act our antipodes. The huntsmen are up in America, and they are already past their first sleep in Persia.
Page 192 - ... the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them; to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 60 - The republican party is mindful of its obligations to the loyal women of America for their noble devotion to the cause of freedom. Their admission to wider fields of usefulness is viewed with satisfaction , and the honest demand of any class of citizens for additional rights should be treated with respectful consideration.
Page 230 - The true republic — men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Page 10 - Lives, too, which bear none of these names have yielded tones of no less significance. The candlestick set in a low place has given light as faithfully where it was needed as that upon the hill. In close alleys, in dismal nooks, the Word has been read as distinctly as when shown by angels to holy men in the dark prison. Those who till a spot of earth scarcely larger than is wanted for a grave have deserved that the sun should shine upon its sod till violets answer. So great has been...
Page 214 - ... to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants of, and persons resident, and estates lying, within the said Commonwealth; and also to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises, upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities whatsoever, brought into, produced, manufactured, or being within the same...
Page 168 - Secondly, nearly all these young ladies subscribe to circulating libraries. Thirdly, they have got up among themselves a periodical called The Lowell Offering, "A repository of original articles, written exclusively by females actively employed in the mills...
Page 182 - Woman has been condemned, from her greater delicacy of physical organization, to inferiority of intellectual and moral culture, and to the forfeiture of great social, civil and religious privileges. In the relation of marriage, she has been ideally annihilated, and actually enslaved in all that concerns her personal and pecuniary rights ; and even in widowhood and single life, she is oppressed with such limitation and degradation of labor and avocation as clearly and cruelly mark the condition of...
Page 176 - Troops of young girls came from different parts of New England, and from Canada, and men were employed to collect them at so much a head, and deliver them at the factories. Some of these were daughters of professional men or teachers, whose mothers, left widows, were struggling to maintain the younger children.