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Lucy Stone

In the history of women's rights, and their leaders, few can compare with the determination and success of Lucy Stone. While many remember Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony for being the most active fighters for women's rights, perhaps Stone is even more important. The major goal for women in this time period was gaining women's suffrage. That is what many remember or associate with the convention at Seneca Falls. However, Stone was not only trying to gain women's suffrage, but also to give women other rights that they did not have at this time. In the mid-1800's, women were almost on the same social level as slaves. The slave owners were husbands. All of the women's earnings went to men, they could not legally write a will unless all of her belongings went to her husband. The husband was the sole owner of the children, and could do anything he wanted with them. There was a case where a man gave away a child to a complete stranger before the baby was even born.......


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