Returning to Seneca Falls: The First Women's Rights Convention and Its Meaning for Men & Women Today : A Journey into the Historical Soul of America

Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Bright and clean illustrated wraps with image of Frederick Douglass from a daguerrtype c. 1850-1855 and the image og Elizabeth Cady Staton from a photograph, c. 1855. Gently used book. Tight ans square binding. Pages clean and free from any markings. On July 13, 1848, five women met over tea in a small upstate New York town. The next day there was an announcement in the local paper inviting women to attend "A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women". A few days later the American women's rights movement became a reality. Miriam Gurko traces the course of this movement from its origin in the Seneca Falls Convention to the passage of the 19th Amendment in1920 giving women the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and others. Now it is 1995, when this book was published and Bradford Miller explores the place and history of Seneca Falls, mixing autobiography, confession, social history, psychology and prophecy, and takes the reader through the historical soul of America and portrays a new vision for America. 198 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1995, Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, New York, USA. …