CSPAN3 American And British Suffrage Movements April 22, 2017
And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. She came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglas, the famed order orator, did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the m...