Resumen
Resumen de Susan B. Anthony
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For readers who love the history of reform movements, stories of how American women won a political voice, and life stories built on persistence.
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Susan B. Anthony spent more than fifty years asking one plain question of her country: why should half its citizens have no vote? This biography by Alma Lutz follows her from a Quaker childhood in Massachusetts to the long public campaign that made her the best-known face of the American women's movement. Lutz was herself a writer and campaigner for women's rights, and she tells the life with warmth and with a clear sense of what Anthony cost herself and gained for others.
You will meet a woman who began as a village schoolteacher and became a lecturer, organizer, editor and fundraiser. You will see her work in temperance and against slavery, her partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and her arrest for voting in 1872. You will also see the quarrels and setbacks along the way. The first key point is where it all starts, in a home where a daughter was taught that she counted.
En este resumen
- 1A Quaker home gives her a conscienceFree
- 2Temperance work teaches her to organize
- 3A lifelong partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- 4After the war the movement splits
- 5She votes, is arrested, and is put on trial
- 6The long work of her later years
Idea clave 1 de 6
A Quaker home gives her a conscience
Susan Brownell Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father, Daniel Anthony, ran a cotton mill, and her family belonged to the Quakers. The Quakers of that time held that every person carries an inner light, and they did not keep women silent in their meetings. That belief shaped the girl more than any lesson in a schoolroom.
Daniel Anthony was strict about plain living, but he also wanted his daughters educated. When a local teacher would not teach his daughter the harder parts of arithmetic, he arranged for her to learn elsewhere. The family later moved to New York State, and in time settled near Rochester. Rochester would stay her home for the rest of her life.
As a young woman Anthony became a teacher, as many educated women then did. She soon saw a plain injustice. Men in the same work were paid far more than women, even when the women did the job as well. Lutz presents this as one of the first sparks of her later cause, because it was a wrong she felt in her own pay.
The family also brought her into contact with reformers. Her father and brother supported antislavery and other causes, and their farm became a place where such people met. Anthony was thoughtful and serious by nature, but she was also stubborn. These traits, a firm creed, a belief in fair pay and a stubborn will, set the course for everything after.
That’s 1 of 6 key points.
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