Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Sojourner Truth.

Title

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Sojourner Truth.

Creator

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Contributor

Sojourner Truth

Date

1867-03-24

Description

Handwritten letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Sojourner Truth. Stanton writes to Truth about attending the upcoming American Equal Rights Convention.

Subject

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

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Identifier

1621

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

         FIRST ANNIVERSARY
                    OF THE
AMERICAN EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION.
                         -
     The first annual meeting of the American Equal Rights
Association will be held in the City of New York, at the Church
of the Puritans, on Thursday and Friday, the ninth and tenth
of May next, commencing on Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.
        The object of this Association is to secure Equal Rights
to all American Citizens, especially the Right of Suffrage, irre-
spective of race, color or sex.
       American Democracy has interpreted the Declaration of
Independence in the interest of slavery, restricting suffrage and
citizenship to a white, male minority.
       The black man is still denied the crowning right of citizen-
ship, even in the nominally free states, though the fires of civil
war have melted the chains of chattelism, and a hundred battle-
fields attest his courage and patriotism.
       Half our population are disfranchised on the ground of sex;
and though compelled to obey the law and taxed to support the
government, they have no voice in the legislation of the country.
   This association then has a mission to perform, the magni-
tude and importance of which cannot be over-estimated.
       The recent war has unsettled all our governmental founda-
tions. Let us see that in their restoration, all these unjust                                    proscriptions are avoided. Let Democracy be defined anew, as
the Government of the people, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE.
      Let the gathering then at this anniversary, be in numbers
and character, worthy in some degree the demands of the hour.
The black man, even the black soldier, is yet but half emanci-
pated, nor will he be, until his full suffrage and citizenship are
secured to him in the Federal Constitution. Still more deplora-
ble is the condition of the black woman ; and legally, that of the
white woman is no better!
       Shall the sun of the nineteenth century go down on wrongs
like these, in this nation, consecrated in its infancy to justice
and freedom?   Rather let our meeting be pledge as well as
prophecy to the world of mankind, that the redemption of at
least one great nation is near at hand.
       In behalf of the American Equal Rights Association.

LUCRETIA MOTT, Pres.

     SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Cor. Sec’y.
     HENRY B. BLACKWELL, Rec. Sec’y.

New York, 12 March, 1867.

[Communications relating to this Anniversary, and donations in aid
of its objects, to be addressed to SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 464 West Thirty-          fourth street, New York.]

(Page 2)

                464, West 34^th N.Y.
                          March 24^th

Dear Sojourner Truth,
                Will you try
to be present at our
Coming Anniversary
& help us to bury the
woman & the negro
in the citizen, &
make N.Y. State
a genuine republic
     yours sincerely
     ECadyStanton.

Annotations

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a woman's rights leader, is writing from New York City to fellow activist, Sojourner Truth. Those who attended the American Equal Rights Convention discussed campaigning to secure voting rights for all disenfranchised peoples.

Tags

Freed Slaves; Women's Rights

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, “Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Sojourner Truth.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 22, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3908.

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