Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

individual biography

portraitsillustrations

index present

non fiction

Susan B. Anthony

bibliography

1045665888

Teri Kanefield

The making of America, 4

In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood to be white and male. Women were expected to stay out of public life and debates. As Anthony saw the situation, "Women's subsistence is in the hands of men, and most arbitrarily and unjustly does he exercise his consequent power." She began her public career as a radical abolitionist, and after the Civil War, she became an international figurehead of the women's suffrage movement. The book includes selections of Anthony's writing, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index

A Quaker girlhood -- The financial crisis -- An unconventional young woman -- All the good you can -- A nation in need of reform -- Civil War -- Emancipation -- We the people -- Betrayal -- Let the world wag -- A new generation

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