美国人物生平 Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

    Born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was on of the first leaders of the American woman’s rights movement, An excellent writer and speaker, she and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 and worked together to secure women’s right to vote. Throughout her life, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a spokesperson for the rights of women, and her daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, carried on her mothers work. She died on October 26, 1902.

1)      Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

   In 1851, Stanton started working with Susan B. Anthony, a well-known abolitionist. The two women made a great team. Anthony managed the business affairs of the women’s rights movement while Stanton did most of the writing. Together they edited and published a woman’s newspaper, the Revolution, from 1868 to 1870. In 1869, Anthony and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, They traveled all over the country and abroad, promoting woman’s rights.

  Anna Howard Shaw, another suffragist, wrote a description of the relationship between Stanton and Anthony in The Story of a Pioneer:” she (Miss Anthony) often said that Mrs. Stanton was the brains of the new association, while she herself was merely its hands and feet; but in truth the two women worked marvelously together, for Mrs. Stanton was a master of words and could write and speak to perfection of the things Susan B. Anthony saw and felt but could not herself express.” This sounds like a good partnership, don’t you think?

 

  Not everyone thought that what Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wer working towards was a good idea. A 1896 political cartoon pokes fun at Stanton and Anthony by suggesting they be considered as important as George Washington. Tody, we wouldn’t think its funny because just as George Washington is considered a “forefather” of American democracy, Stanton and Anthony are “foremothers” of the struggle for women’s equality.

    (2) Elizabeth Cady and her daughter

  Elizabeth Cady was married to Henry Brewster Stanton, an activist in the anti-slavery cause, and they had seven children. With her lifetime, Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw her daughter Harriot, born in 1856, do what she could not-attend college. Harriot graduated from Vassar
                    College in 1878. She helped her mother and Susan B. Anthony complete their History of Woman Suffrage. How else did Harriot Stanton promote the woman’s rights movement?

  In November 1882, Harriot Stanton married an English businessman by the name of William H.Blatch. They lived in England for 20 years. When they returned to the U.S. in 1902, she became involved in the Women’s Trade Union League and the National Amercian Woman Suffrage Association. Once Harriot Blatch stood in the middle of Wall Street, speaking to the crowds about giving women the same rights as men. In 1917, she was able to vote-something her mother fought for her entire life.

(3) Women’s Rights

From a young age, Elizabeth Cady Stanton learned that girls didn’t have the same rights or opportunities as boys. Stanton went to Johnston
                    Academy, a co-ed school. She later wrote that she was “the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages.” She wasn’t allowed to go college because she was a girl, so instead she studied at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary. Stanton was a firm believer in individual rights, such as the right to vote or the right to have any job for which you are qualified. Stanton’s father was a judge. She read laws with him but wasn’t allowed to practice because, you guessed it, she was a woman. After all this, what inspired Stanton to fight for women’s right?

In 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton attended the world antislavery convention in London with Lucretia Mott, an outspoken Quaker abolitionist, and some other women representatives. She believed that laws that treated women differently than men needed to be reformed. Stanton drafted a “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, which she modeled after the Declaration of Independence. In the document, she called for moral, economic, and political equality for women. In 1848, she presented the document at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York. Whom do you stood by Stanton and supported women in their fight for equality?

Frederick Douglass, a farmer slave and abolitionist leader, stood with Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention and argued for women’s right to vote. One hundred people signed the “Declaration of rights and Sentiments”. The Declaration wasn’t just about women getting the right to vote. In it and throughout her life, Stanton argued for women rights to higher education, to professional life, to the ownership of property, and to obtain a divorce. She wrote The Woman’s Bible in which she criticized the treatment of women in the Old Treatment. Nowadays women in this country have almost all the same opportunities as men.

 

 

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