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Lucy Stanton was born free, the only child of Margaret and Samuel Stanton, on October 16, 1831. [4] When her biological father Samuel, a barber, died when she was only 18 months old, Stanton's mother married John Brown, [5] an abolitionist famous around Cleveland, Ohio, for his participation in the Underground Railroad.
Lucy Stanton Bassett, also known as Lucy Celesta Stanton, also known as Laah Ciel Manatoi, was born in New York on December 28, 1816. [2] Her father was Daniel Stanton and her mother was Clarinda Graves; Lucy grew up with seven siblings, five sisters and two brothers. [3] Soon after Lucy was born, her and her family moved to Missouri.
In 1840, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands to London for the first World Anti-Slavery Convention, but they were not allowed to participate because they were women. Mott and Stanton became friends there and agreed to organize a convention to further the cause of women's rights.
Lucy Stanton may refer to: Lucy Stanton (abolitionist) (1831–1910), African American abolitionist and activist Lucy May Stanton (1875–1931), American painter
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts ...
On Sept. 6, 2023, History Museum Deputy Executive Director Kristie Erickson will present “Insights in History — Schuyler Colfax: Speaker for Freedom,” a talk about his life.
There she and Mott became friends and vowed to organize a women's rights convention in the United States. Stanton was an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention and the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. [2] Lucy Stone was a pioneering worker for women's rights and an organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention in ...
Nearly 130 years after his passing, famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass made history once again. On his chosen birthday of Feb. 14, a bust of Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate ...