The Women of the Suffrage Movement. Jane Addams

have given me confidence in my judgment, and patience with the opposition of my coadjutors, with whom on so many points I disagree. It requires no courage now to demand the right of suffrage, temperance legislation, liberal divorce laws, or for women to fill church offices—these battles have been fought and won and the principle governing these demands conceded. But it still requires courage to question the divine inspiration of the Hebrew Writings as to the position of woman. Why should the myths, fables, and allegories of the Hebrews be held more sacred than those of the Assyrians and Egyptians, from whose literature most of them were derived? Seeing that the religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences, I feel impelled to reiterate my demands for justice, liberty, and equality in the Church as well as in the State.

      The birthday celebration was to me more than a beautiful pageant; more than a personal tribute. It was the dawn of a new day for the Mothers of the Race! The harmonious co-operation of so many different organizations, with divers interests and opinions, in one grand jubilee was, indeed, a heavenly vision of peace and hope; a prophecy that with the exaltation of Womanhood would come new Life, Light, and Liberty to all mankind.

Susan B. Anthony

       Table of Contents

       Volume 1

       Preface

       Chapter I: Ancestry, Home and Childhood (1550-1826)

       Chapter II: Girlhood and School-Life (1826-1838)

       Chapter III: Financial Crash—The Teacher (1838-1845)

       Chapter IV: The Farm Home—End of Teaching (1845-1850)

       Chapter V: Entrance Into Public Life (1850-1852)

       Chapter VI: Temperance and Teachers' Conventions (1852-1853)

       Chapter VII: Petitions—Bloomers—Lectures (1854)

       Chapter VIII: First County Canvass—The Water Cure (1855)

       Chapter IX: Advance Along All Lines (1856)

       Chapter X: Campaigning with the Garrisonians (1857-1858)

       Chapter XI: Conditions Prior to the War (1859)

       Chapter XII: Rift in Common Law—Divorce Question (1860)

       Chapter XIII: Mob Experience—Civil War (1861-1862)

       Chapter XIV: Women's National Loyal League (1863-1864)

       Chapter XV: "Male" in the Federal Constitution (1865)

       Chapter XVI: The Negro's Hour (1866)

       Chapter XVII: Campaigns in New York and Kansas (1867)

       Chapter XVIII: Establishing the Revolution (1868)

       Chapter XIX: Amendment XV—Founding of National Society (1869)

       Chapter XX: Fiftieth Birthday—End of Equal Rights Society (1870)

       Chapter XXI: End of Revolution—Status of Woman Suffrage (1870)

       Chapter XXII: Mrs. Hooker's Convention—The Lecture Field (1871)

       Chapter XXIII: First Trip to the Pacific Coast (1871)

       Chapter XXIV: Republican Splinter—Miss Anthony Votes (1872)

       Chapter XXV: Trial for Voting Under Fourteenth Amendment (1873)

       Chapter XXVI: No Constitutional Right to Jury or Franchise (1874)

       Chapter XXVII: Revolution Debt Paid—Women's Fourth of July (1875-1876)

       Chapter XXVIII: Colorado Campaign—Political Attitude (1877-1878)

       Chapter XXIX: Senate Committee Report—Press Comment (1879-1880)

       Volume 2

       Chapter XXX: Political Candidates—Writing the History (1880-1881)

       Chapter XXXI: The Legacy—Nebraska Campaign—Off for Europe (1881-1882-1883)

       Chapter XXXII: Miss Anthony's European Letters (1883)

       Chapter XXXIII: Congressional Hearings—Visit to New Orleans (1884-1885)

       Chapter XXXIV: Many Trips—First Vote on Sixteenth Amendment (1886-1887)

       Chapter XXXV: Union of Associations—International Council (1888)

       Chapter XXXVI: Conventions from Washington to South Dakota (1889)

       Chapter XXXVII: At the End of Seventy Years (1890)

       Chapter XXXVIII: The South Dakota Campaign (1890)

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