Women's rights
- Title:
- Woman's Rights Commensurate with Her Capacities and Obligations: A Series of Tracts
- Publication/Origin:
- Syracuse: Printed by J. E. Masters, 1853
- Description:
- This volume gathers together important speeches and essays from the early women’s rights movement in the United States. Most of the texts were read at Women’s Rights Conventions in Worcester (1850) or Syracuse (1852). Contents include the Declaration of Sentiments from Seneca Falls, and speeches by important leaders in the movement such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Angelina Grimke, and Paulina Davis. This copy has evidence of women’s ownership, with a small inscription on the first page, “Miss Diana James Book.”
- Citation:
- Woman's Rights Commensurate with Her Capacities and Obligations: A Series of Tracts, Syracuse: Printed by J. E. Masters, 1853, Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 23, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4153