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Ocupação. Sufragista, abolicionista e feminista. Lucy Stone ( West Brookfield, 13 de agosto de 1818 - Boston, 18 de outubro de 1893) foi uma proeminente oradora, sufragista americana, abolicionista, defensora local e promotora dos direitos das mulheres norte-americana. [ 1]
- Early Life and Influences
- Oberlin
- Antislavery Apprenticeship
- National Woman's Rights Convention
- Woman's Rights Orator
- Petitioning and Hearings
- Marriage
- Waning Activism
- National Organizations
- Voting Rights
Lucy Stone was born on August 13, 1818, on her family's farm at Coy's Hill in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She was the eighth of nine children born to Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone; she grew up with three brothers and three sisters, two siblings having died before her own birth. Another member of the Stone household was Sarah Barr, "Aunt Sal...
In August 1843, just after she turned 25, Stone traveled by train, steamship, and stagecoach to Oberlin College in Ohio, the country's first college to admit both women and African Americans. She entered the college believing that women should vote and assume political office, that women should study the classic professions, and that women should b...
Stone gave her first public speeches on women's rights in the fall of 1847, first at her brother Bowman's church in Gardner, Massachusetts, and a little later in Warren. Stone became a lecturing agent for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in June 1848, persuaded by Abby Kelley Foster that the experience would give her the speaking practice she...
In April 1850, the Ohio Women's Convention met in Salem, Ohio, a few weeks before a state convention met to revise the Ohio state constitution. The women's convention sent a communication to the constitutional convention requesting that the new constitution secure the same political and legal rights for women that were guaranteed to men. Stone sent...
In May 1851, while in Boston attending the New England Anti-Slavery Society's annual meeting, Stone went to the exhibit of Hiram Powers's statue The Greek Slave. She was so moved by the sculpture that when she addressed the meeting that evening, she poured out her heart about the statue being emblematic of all enchained womanhood. Stone said the so...
In addition to being the women's rights movement's most prominent spokesperson, Lucy Stone led the movement's petitioning efforts. She initiated petition efforts in New England and several other states and assisted the petitioning efforts of state and local organizations in New York, Ohio, and Indiana.
Henry Blackwell began a two-year courtship of Stone in the summer of 1853. Stone told him she did not wish to marry because she did not want to surrender control over her life and would not assume the legal position occupied by a married woman. Blackwell maintained that despite the law, couples could create a marriage of equal partnership, governed...
After her marriage, from the summer of 1855 to the summer of 1857, Stone continued a full lecturing, petitioning, and organizing schedule.In January 1856, Stone was accused in court, and spoke in defense of a rumor put forward by the prosecution that Stone gave a knife to former slave Margaret Garner, on trial for the killing of her own child to pr...
American Equal Rights Association
Slavery was abolished in December 1865 with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which raised questions about the future role of the American Anti-Slavery Society(AASS). In January 1866, Stone and Anthony traveled to an AASS meeting in Boston to propose a merger of the anti-slavery and women's movements into one that would campaign for equal rights for all citizens. The AASS, preferring to focus on the rights of African Americans, especially the newly freed s...
Split within the women's movement
The immediate cause of the split was the proposed Fifteenth Amendment, which would prohibit the denial of suffrage because of race. In one of their most controversial moves, Anthony and Stanton campaigned against the amendment, insisting that women and African Americans should be enfranchised at the same time. They said that by effectively enfranchisingall men while excluding all women, the amendment would create an "aristocracy of sex" by giving constitutional authority to the idea that men...
Divorce and "free love"
In 1870, at the twentieth anniversary celebration of the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Stanton spoke for three hours rallying the crowd for women's right to divorce. By then, Stone's position on the matter had shifted significantly. Personal differences between Stone and Stanton came to the fore on the issue, with Stone writing "We believe in marriage for life, and deprecate all this loose, pestiferous talk in favor of easy divorce." Stone made it clear that those wis...
In 1870, Stone and Blackwell moved from New Jersey to Dorchester, Massachusetts, which today is a neighborhood of Boston just south of downtown. There they purchased Pope's Hill, a seventeen-room house with extensive grounds and several outbuildings.Many of the town's women had been active in the Dorchester Female Anti-Slavery Society and, by 1870,...
Conhecido por : Uma figura importante no movimento ativista negro norte-americano do século XIX e movimentos de direitos das mulheres do século XIX. Nascimento : 13 de agosto de 1818 em West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Pais : Hannah Matthews e Francis Stone. Falecimento : 18 de outubro de 1893 em Boston, Massachusetts.
Leading suffragist and abolitionist Lucy Stone famously defied gender norms when she wrote marriage vows to reflect her egalitarian beliefs and refused to take her husband’s last name. Read her story on womenshistory.org.
Lucy Stone ( West Brookfield, 13 de agosto de 1818 - Boston, 18 de outubro de 1893) foi uma proeminente oradora, sufragista americana, abolicionista, defensora local e promotora dos direitos das mulheres norte-americana.
10 de abr. de 2024 · Lucy Stone (born Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 18, 1893, Dorchester [part of Boston], Mass.) was an American pioneer in the women’s rights movement. Stone began to chafe at the restrictions placed on the female sex while she was still a girl.
20 de jan. de 2024 · Quick Facts. Significance: Abolitionist and Suffragist. Place of Birth: West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Date of Birth: 1818. Place of Death: Dorchester, Massachusetts. Date of Death: 1893. Steadfast in her belief of self and ability to change the world, Lucy Stone stands as a historical titan, her "Unapologetic Life" a model of a revolutionary.
