Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Susan B. Anthony
Hello my name is Susan B. Anthony. I was born in West Grove, Massachusetts being the second oldest of my seven brothers and sisters. I was born into a family of Quakers, and was a very precocious child, learning to read and write when I was three. I later went to public school but my father quickly took me out and started to home school me himself. Later in life I went to a Quaker Boarding School in Philadelphia. When I was 29 I started getting involved in conventions relating to temperance and the anti-slavery movement. However, I felt most strongly about gaining women's rights. I then became involved with issues concerning women's suffrage and equal rights for all. In Seneca Falls I met Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and created the National Women's Suffrage Association. This focuses on gaining women's right to vote after the American Equal Rights Association was voting on allowing African Americans to gain suffrage but not American women. This is completely unfair and I will not stand for it!
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Hello Ms. Anthony! It is wonderful to hear that you will be attending the dinner tomorrow as well. I am ecstatic, as we will now be able to further discuss our ideas of anti-slavery and universal women and african suffrage! Also we shall also be able to discuss our plans for the founding of the American Equal Rights Association and update each other on our current lives.
Once again it is wonderful to hear that you shall be attending this dinner, and I hope to see you soon.
Your old friend
--Lucretia Mott
Good evening, Ms Anthony! How wonderful it is to finally talk to you in person. I, being one of the few men to attend the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, was truly moved by the power of your words. You spoke for justice, for equality, and for the rights of all Americans. Being an advocate of women's, as well as African Americans', rights I find comfort in sharing your struggle. It's good to know that there's someone else out there who believes in such a noble cause, Ms. Anthony! Take care now.
Your friend and colleague,
Frederick Douglass
Hello Miss Anthony! It is great to see that you support women's suffrage because I completely agree with you. Women should have the right to be publicly educated! They should have as much oppurtunity to succeed through knowledge as men too! Girls need to be educated at a young age just as boys are, and not just focus on household activities. Thank you for speaking up for this cause and I am with you all the way for equal rights of men and women!
Sincerely,
Catharine Beecher
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