Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the History of its Formation.
Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the History of its Formation. With the Times and Places in Which the Association has Held Meetings Up to 1880. Boston: Press of George H. Ellis, 1881.
8vo; 8 pp.; disbound; fine.
The American Woman Suffrage Association, whose publication was the important "Woman's Journal,” was founded in 1869 specifically to support the 15th amendment. Its rival, Anthony and Stanton's National Woman Suffrage Association (started the same year) had a broader woman's rights and reform addenda. The AWSA numbered among is women members and delegates, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abby K. Foster, Frances D. Gage, Antoinette L. Blackwell, Mary A. Livermore, Amelia Bloomer, Ednah D. Cheney, Louisa May Alcott, Grace Greenwood, Carolina Severance, and Olympia Brown. Male Members included Henry Ward Beecher, John Neal, William Lloyd Garrison, James Freeman Clarke, T.W. Higginson, Samuel J. May, Gerrit Smith, Henry B. Blackwell, and the African American Robert Purvis. The AWSA had a strong Boston and New England transcendentalist orientation. OCLC locates only 5 copies of this scarce pamphlet.
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