The Slave’s Appeal
Title:
The Slave’s Appeal
Description:
On the eve of the Civil War, Elizabeth Cady Stanton published The Slave’s Appeal, in which she applied the Ten Commandments to the institution of slavery and exhorted New Yorkers to defy the Fugitive Slave Act. The Slave’s Appeal included petitions to be circulated so that the signatures collected could be sent to state legislatures to demand an end to slave hunting. Stanton and Susan B. Anthony would later oppose the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted suffrage to black men, because it did not enfranchise women.
Creator:
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Publisher:
Weed, Parsons and Company, printers
Date:
1860
Coverage:
Albany
Display Date:
1860
Hover Text:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton — abolitionist and suffragist
Published Item:
P
Item Index:
45
Item Sort:
1800s
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