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The Revolution newspaper, May 27, 1869

Elizabeth Cady Stanton · 27 May 1869

A weekly issue of The Revolution, the women's rights paper founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It reports on the American Equal Rights Association's 1869 annual meeting.

Stanton, who co-edited this paper with Parker Pillsbury, shows her role as a leader of the 1869 suffrage campaign and of its public voice.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 21, 27 May 1869. Internet Archive scan (PDF).

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What it is

This is the 27 May 1869 issue (Vol. 3, No. 21) of The Revolution, a weekly women's rights paper established by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The masthead names Stanton and Parker Pillsbury as editors and Anthony as proprietor. The issue reports the second day of proceedings of the American Equal Rights Association, held at Steinway Hall. The copy at the Internet Archive is a scanned book in PDF form, not a retyped text.

Why it matters

The paper gave suffrage supporters a regular public voice. The report says letters from John Stuart Mill and William Lloyd Garrison were read to the convention. It also repeats Mill's view that every reform passes through three steps: ridicule, argument, and adoption. These details show how American reformers tied their cause to debates on both sides of the Atlantic.

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  • Who are the editors and proprietor named at the top, and what job did each one do?
  • Which supporters does the report name, and why might the editors have chosen to print their words?
  • Whose voices are missing from this account of a women's rights meeting?

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