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[The Proceedings of the woman's rights conventions].

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06228 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Book signed Date: 1851-1854 Pagination: 576 p . ; Height: 21.3 cm, Width: 15 cm Order a Copy

Compilation of the 1850 through 1854 women's rights conventions. Contents include the 1850 convention held at Worcester; the 1851 convention held at Worcester; the 1852 convention held in Syracuse; the 1853 convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York; and the 1854 convention held in Cleveland. Included in the section on the convention in Cleveland is a printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Inscription reads, "Harriet H. Robinson from Paulina Gerry, Nov. 1881." Gerry attended the 1850 convention. Robinson used this volume in writing "Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774 to 1881" (Boston, 1881).

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