•This source offers a more detailed perspective on
Stanton’s complex views on women’s rights and
reveals her denouncement of black suffrage.
•She demanded rights for married women, including rights
to property, wages and the ability to
leave an abusive marriage. She argued that women should have the right to decide
with whom and when to bear children.
•She urged women to reject churches and ministers who
insisted on asserting their inequality.
•Through she was a leading advocate for women’s suffrage,
she suggested that allowing black men to
vote endangered white women and questioned why
black men should obtain suffrage before white
women.