Should Women Vote? Important Affirmative Authority. - 2 COPIES.
Extremely Rare Pre-Civil War Pamphlet Advocating Woman Suffrage
Important Statements From Lydia Maria Child And Lucretia Mott, Frederic Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Taylor (John Stuart Mill's wife) and more
[Suffrage]. Should Women Vote? Important Affirmative Authority. Rochester, N.Y.: Wm. S. Falls, Book & Job Printer, [ca. 1857].
8vo; 4 pp.; pamphlet 5 7/16 x 8 ¼”; self-wrappers; ex-library with oval institutional stamp (Central Michigan University—Clarke Historical Library); withdrawl stamp; few pencil notations in margins; chipping at edges; lower corner of pp. 3-4 folded and has ¼” tear; light fingerprint-size smudge to text on pp. 1-2; else good and quite unusual thus—pre-Civil War publications on the question of woman suffrage are quite rare.
First Edition. Giants of the human rights and anti-slavery movements support woman suffrage in this rare offering. A pamphlet promoting the woman suffrage campaign, Should Women Vote? features quotes from American political and religious leaders, state government reports, and key figures in the suffrage and abolitionist movement including Anna E. Dickinson, Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. “Give the woman the ballot, and the colored man will not other way so quickly get his just rights,” says Frederick Douglass in one quote. In another quote excerpted from Mrs. John Stuart Mill’s The Enfranchisement Of Woman, Mill writes “That women have as good a claim as men, in point of personal right to the suffrage, or to a place in the jury box, it would be difficult for any one to deny.”
This pamphlet was written and distributed in the decade following the approval of the resolution calling for woman suffrage at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Plus, it was published in upstate New York, the center of the campaign for suffrage and the women’s rights movement in 19th century America. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Decker. Kritchmar, 544.
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