Suffrage

Experience the exciting history of the women's suffrage movement through the eyes of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Ellen Carol Dubois delves into the movement's pre-Civil War roots with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth, exploring its links to the abolition of slavery. Dubois covers the movement's eventual triumph in securing voting rights for all American women, and the subsequent efforts of suffragists to use their newfound political power for the greater good. Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote is a vivid and authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of American democracy.