In early 19th century America, the Second Great Awakening was not only a powerful and radical religious movement but also a vehicle by which women could strengthen their role in religion and ultimately society. With a shift from a predominantly agricultural to industrial society, the birth of the...

I. Susan B. Anthony : A Biographical Introduction Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts to Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Susan was the second born of eight children in a strict Quaker family. Her father, Daniel Anthony, was said to have been a ster...

"Suffrage Wins in Senate; Constitutional Amendment is Passed, fifty-six to twenty-five. Women May Vote in nineteen-twenty"- The New York Times June fifth, nineteen-nineteen. Spanning from eighteen-forty to nineteen-nineteen, the fight for the voice of women everywhere to be heard took d...

Wesley Jackson 3/26/04 Byrom/ His.110 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady's older brother Eleazer, died when she was eleven years old. He was the only son of Judge Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady. Eleazer was the pride of the wea...

master will not inform him. Most masters prefer for their slaves to stay ignorant. He believes that he was around twenty-seven and twenty-eight when he began writing his narrative - he overheard his master say he was about seventeen years of age during 1835. The farm was owned by Aaron Anthony ...