Proceedings of the National Women's Rights Convention.
Proceedings of the National Women's Rights Convention, Held at Cleveland, Ohio, on...October 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1853. Cleveland, Gray, Beardsley, Spear, & Co., Printers, Plain Dealer Office, 1854.
8vo; 188 pp.; title and first few leaves a bit frayed; small brown stain upper right corner; light damp-stain at bottom of sheets toward the back with some other browning; lacks original wrappers; disbound; about very good.
First Edition. The fourth such national convention elected Francis D. Gage was president. Vice presidents included Antoinette L. Brown, Lucretia Mott, Caroline Severance, Emily Robinson, and Amy Post. There are major speeches and much discussion detailed and printed in this large document. A proposal to print and circulate a nine-point Declaration of Women's Rights, and Thomas W. Higginson's suggestion about compiling statistical works on marriage and property laws, educational equalities between men and women, and women's occupations is recorded.
With Frances D. Gage presiding, the fourth national woman's rights convention attracted 1,500 participants. At a meeting in New York City a month earlier, women's rights speakers could not be heard over the screeches and hisses of opponents. In Cleveland, some again raised objections based on interpretations of the Bible, which were discussed in good order. William Henry Channing suggested that the convention issue its own Declaration of Women's Rights and petitions to state legislatures seeking woman suffrage, equal inheritance rights, equal guardianship laws, divorce for wives of alcoholics, tax exemptions for women until given the right to vote, and right to trial before a jury of female peers. Lucretia Mott moved the adoption of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, which was read to convention, and debated until the convention referred Channing's letter and the Declaration of Sentiment to a special committee. This new declaration, read at the end of the meeting, was never adopted.
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