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Definition: Stanton from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

Elizabeth Stanton 1815–1902 née Cady Am. suffragist

STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY

From Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History
1815-1902 Women's Rights Advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a founder of the organized women's movement in the United States. Stanton, who rarely shied from controversy, considered the political, social, and religious aspects when discussing or writing about the oppression of women. As a theorist, Stanton established the broad concerns of the women's rights movement, achieving a position of preeminence within the movement. Abolitionist Background Stanton, the daughter of a lawyer, was given the best education available to women at the time. Influenced by her cousin Gerrit Smith, a prominent abolitionist, she joined the antislavery movement and met her husband, Henry B. Stanton, an officer in the New York State Anti-Slavery Society. They married in 1840, partly so that they could travel together to London for the international anti-slavery convention. There Stanton became acquainted with Quaker reformer Lucretia Mott, who introduced her to women's rights issues. Seneca Falls and the…
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Full text Article Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

From Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
S. was a philosopher and writer who helped shape the political activity of woman's suffrage throughout the second half of the 19th c., although she has been overshadowed in more recent times by her contemporary Susan B. Anthony. The daughter of a conservative jurist and aristocratic mother, she was…
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (National Archives and...
The writer and reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was perhaps the most gifted and versatile feminist leader in American history. Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815. The daughter of a judge, she became a feminist while still a child after hearing her father…
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Full text Article Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Man Cannot Speak for Her, January 18, 1892

From Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
We ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives . . . because, as an individual, she must rely on herself. At the frail age of seventy-six, after five decades of service to suffrage and equal opportunity, Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered this address after stepping down as president…
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Full text Article Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Reformer and a leader in the fight for women's rights. She and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first women's rights conference in the United States. With Susan B. Anthony she cofounded the National Woman Suffrage Association and coedited a women's rights journal, …
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Full text Article Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

From Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
Women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also an active member of the antislavery movement, using her education and talents to promote racial equality and black suffrage. Although Stanton’s legacy as a women’s rights advocate has often overshadowed her contributions to abolition, her…
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Full text Article Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American suffrage worker. She was born in Johnstown, New York, where she was educated before attending emma W illard ’s Troy Female Seminary (1830-2). She studied law with her father and her experience of his office led to a concern for the property and custody rights of women. After 1832 she was…
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Full text Article Elizabeth Cady, Stanton

From Chambers Classic Speeches
Elizabeth Cady Stanton née Cady (1815-1902) was born in Johnstown, New York. While studying law under her Congressman father Daniel Cady (1773-1859), she determined to address the inequality that she discovered in women's legal, political and industrial rights and in divorce law. In 1840 she married…
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Full text Article Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)

From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, with Susan B....
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the primary organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, an early proponent of woman suffrage, and among the foremost leaders of the nineteenth century women's rights movement. With her friend Susan B. Anthony, Stanton launched the National Woman Suffrage…
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US reformer and suffragette; organizer of the first Women’s Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, US (1848). She is remembered chiefly as co-author of The History of Woman Suffrage (1881-6) and she also wrote The Women’s Bible (1895). We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are…
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Full text Article SLAVERY

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states. GANDHI Non-Violence in Peace and War (1949). That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare…
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