WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.

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Proceedings of the Tenth National Woman's Rights Convention, Held at the Cooper Institute, New York City, May 10th and 11th 1860. First edition, recording the speeches and resolutions of leading figures in the American women's rights movement, including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martha Coffin Wright. This final antebellum convention resolved to pursue women's full protection under law, including trial by a jury of her peers, the right to vote, and the right to divorce on the grounds of ill treatment.Their addresses encourage the 800 participants to secure full legal protections for women at the federal level. They build on the momentum created by the landmark Married Women's Property Act passed in New York earlier in 1860, which gave women joint custody of their children and sole use of their wages and property.The report contains the speeches, printed in full, of Stanton, who founded the Convention with Anthony, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825-1921), the first women to be ordained as a Protestant minister in the United States, who had spoken at the inaugural National Women's Rights Convention in 1850. Her proposed resolution supporting divorce in cases of ill treatment was rebutted by Wendell Phillips, but nonetheless passed "without dissent" (p. 90).WorldCat records four institutional holdings.

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