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The Proceedings Of The Woman's Rights Convention Held At Worcester, October 23D & 24Th, 1850 - Softcover

National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection

 
9780371711408: The Proceedings Of The Woman's Rights Convention Held At Worcester, October 23D & 24Th, 1850

Synopsis

The Proceedings Of The Woman's Rights Convention Held At Worcester, October 23D & 24Th, 1850. This volume collects the Worcester convention proceedings from October 23–24, 1850, including opening remarks, officer nominations, committee reports, and the day-by-day sessions. It contains the Convention call, the president’s address, multiple resolutions on education, industrial opportunities, civil and political rights, and social relations, as well as lengthy addresses on women’s rights in church and state, and extracts from speeches by prominent reformers. The text also reproduces numerous letters and testimonies from leading abolitionists and suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others, illustrating the breadth of the early movement for women’s rights. Central committees and educational, industrial, civil, and social committees are detailed, culminating in resolutions advocating equal rights, property rights, suffrage, and legal reforms, framed within a philosophy of reform grounded in principle, patience, and peaceful advocacy.

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