The suffrage movement operated under two very different principles. Elizabeth Cady Stanton saw women’s suffrage as a right that had been unfairly denied to women, while Frederick Douglass saw women’s suffrage as a means to save the country’s soul. Professor Meg Mott considers both of these visions. 

Educator Resources

• Yes, Women Could Vote After The 19th Amendment — But Not All Women. Or Men.
  National Public Radio, August 26, 2020
• For Stanton, All Women Were Not Created Equal
  National Public Radio, July 13, 2011
• The papers of suffragist, reformer, and feminist theorist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Library of Congress
• Jane Addams
  National Women’s History Museum
• Hull House
  Virginia Commonwealth University Social Welfare History Project
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  Poetry Foundation

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