Woman Suffrage Convention.
Woman Suffrage Convention, Washington, December 7, 1871...The American Woman Suffrage Association, representing thirteen auxiliary State Societies...You are respectfully invited to attend...[Wash, D. C.]: Chronicle Print, [Dec.7, 1871].
Broadside handbill; 7 3/4 x 4 3/4"; fine.
Very rare broadside, apparently unrecorded.
"Our object is to state the reasons why the women of the United States should exercise the Right of Suffrage." The convention was held Dec. 8 and 9, and speakers included Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore, Elizabeth K. Churchill, Ada C. Bowles, Mercy B. Jackson, T. W. Higginson, James Freeman Clarke and others. This is a handbill/notice of one of the earliest public meetings of the AWSA which was started in 1869 by Stone and Howe, who, at this time, were president and chairman respectively. The AWSA, whose publication was the important Woman's Journal, was organized specifically to support the 15th amendment, unlike it's rival Anthony and Stanton's National Woman Suffrage Association (started the same year) which had a broader woman's rights and reform addenda. The AWSA numbered among its members Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott, tended to work for suffrage on a state by state basis, and had a Boston and New England transcendentalist orientation. The two organizations merged in 1890, becoming the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
American Woman's History, by Weatherford, pp. 10-11.
Encyclopedia of Women's History in America, by Cullen-Dupont, p. 151.
Timelines of American Women's History, pp.. 27, 28, 34, 292.
Timetables of Women's History, pp. 235, 253.
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