Untidy Origins A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York |
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| Author:
| Ginzberg, Lori D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-2947-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2005 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $73.50 |
Book Description:
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Two years before the landmark Seneca Falls Convention, six ordinary women in Jefferson County, New York, presented a petition to the NY State Constitutional Convention that accused the state government of departing from "true democratic principles" by denying women the right to vote. Ginzberg tells their remarkable story for the first time, bringing light to a neglected watershed moment in the story of women's suffrage.
Two years before the landmark Seneca Falls Convention, six ordinary women in Jefferson County, New York, presented a petition to the NY State Constitutional Convention that accused the state government of departing from "true democratic principles" by denying women the right to vote. Ginzberg tells their remarkable story for the first time, bringing light to a neglected watershed moment in the story of women's suffrage.