Cady Stanton was mother to seven children, and her maternal duties often prevented her from actively participating in the movement alongside Anthony. She advocated for liberalized divorce laws, reproductive self-determination, and increased legal rights for women. These stances alienated her from others in the movement but only experienced limited degrees of success during her lifetime. Their names remind us that our work requires a diversity of voices from the past, present, and future.
Her father was a noted lawyer and state assemblyman and young Elizabeth gained an informal legal education by talking with him and listening in on his conversations with colleagues and guests.
A well-educated woman, Stanton married abolitionist lecturer Henry Stanton in She, too, became active in the anti-slavery movement and worked alongside leading abolitionists of the day including Sarah and Angelina Grimke and William Lloyd Garrison, all guests at the Stanton home while they lived in Albany, New York and later Boston.
Stanton met Susan B. Anthony in , and the two quickly began collaboration on speeches, articles, and books. When Stanton was unable to travel do to the demands of raising her seven children, she would author speeches for Anthony to deliver.
There she also became involved in Civil War efforts and joined with Anthony to advocate for the 13 th Amendment, which ended slavery. She and Anthony opposed the 14 th and 15 th amendments to the US Constitution, which gave voting rights to black men but did not extend the franchise to women. As NWSA president, Stanton was an outspoken social and political commentator and debated the major political and legal questions of the day. By the s, Stanton was 65 years old and focused more on writing rather than traveling and lecturing.
In this comprehensive work, published several decades before women won the right to vote, the authors documented the individual and local activism that built and sustained a movement for woman suffrage.
Along with numerous articles on the subject of women and religion, Stanton published the Woman's Bible , , in which she voiced her belief in a secular state and urged women to recognize how religious orthodoxy and masculine theology obstructed their chances to achieve self-sovereignty. She also wrote an autobiography, Eighty Years and More , about the great events and work of her life. Stanton died in October in New York City, 18 years before women gained the right to vote.
MLA — Michals, Debra. National Women's History Museum, There she stood, with her good earnest face and genial smile, dressed in gray delaine, hat and all the same color, relieved with pale blue ribbons, the perfection of neatness and sobriety. I liked her thoroughly, and why I did not at once invite her home with me to dinner I do not know. Slavery was still legal. A husband could hit his wife with abandon and put her away in an institution.
Anthony and Stanton inspired each other to fight for change. She stirred soup pots and cleaned banged knees to give Stanton time to write speeches, petitions and leaflets. Source: Susan B. By the s Stanton had tired of travel and organizational leadership. Already sixty-five years old, she became more sedentary and focused on her writing, producing one of her greatest legacies, three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage with Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
In this work, published several decades before women won the right to vote, the authors documented the individual and local activism that built and sustained a movement for woman suffrage. Stanton died in October in an apartment in New York City that she shared with two of her grown children. Susan B. American National Biography Online: www. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division reproduction number, e. Additional Resources : Banner, Lois W.
Boston: Little, Brown, c Griffith, Elisabeth. New York: Oxford University Press, Dubois, Ellen Carol, editor.
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