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The Revolution

Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 1868

A weekly women's rights newspaper edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and published with Susan B. Anthony from 1868 to 1872.

Stanton co-edited this paper, using it to argue for women's rights and against the Fifteenth Amendment without women's suffrage.

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Scan of the front page of the first issue of The Revolution, dated New York, Wednesday, January 8, 1868. Masthead reads 'The Revolution' with the motto 'Principle, not policy; justice, not favors.' Three columns of small print include editorials on Kansas woman suffrage and a statement of editors Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury and Susan B. Anthony. A round Library of Congress stamp appears at upper right. — The Revolution, first issue, New York, 8 January 1868. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Parker Pillsbury, and Susan B. Anthony.

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What it is

The Revolution was a newspaper founded in New York City by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, published weekly from January 1868 to February 1872. Anthony managed its business side while Stanton served as co-editor alongside abolitionist Parker Pillsbury.

Why it matters

The paper gave Stanton and Anthony a platform to argue for women's suffrage during a bitter split within the movement, especially over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment, which they opposed unless women were also guaranteed the vote. Its early funding came from George Francis Train, a wealthy but controversial and racist supporter, which caused protest among other activists. Mounting debt eventually forced Anthony to give up the paper after less than three years.

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Why might Stanton and Anthony have accepted funding from someone as controversial as Train?
What does the paper's motto, 'Principle, not policy; justice, not favors,' suggest about its editors' priorities?
How did disagreement over the Fifteenth Amendment reveal tensions between the suffrage and abolitionist movements?

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