The Life of Lucy Stone

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Alice Stone Blackwell. The Life of Lucy Stone

The Life of Lucy Stone

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Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Chapter XVIII

Chapter XIX

Chapter XX

Appendix

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Alice Stone Blackwell

Chapter II

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Shortly before the issuing of the Pastoral Letter, Sarah had begun to publish in the New England Spectator a series of articles on "The Province of Woman." She had long had the woman question very much at heart. She grieved for the sufferings not only of the slaves, but of white women and children under the unjust laws; and she had felt strongly on the subject of equal educational opportunities for women ever since, in her girlhood, her father, Judge Grimke, had refused to let her study Latin with her brother, although he declared that, if she were a boy, she would make the ablest jurist in the country.

Sarah's letters in the Spectator made a commotion and greatly intensified the opposition. Garrison and Phillips backed the women to the utmost; but most of the abolitionists did not yet believe in the general doctrine of equal rights for women, and, of those who did, many thought it a mistake to mix up the antislavery cause, which was intensely unpopular, with the question of woman's rights, which was more unpopular still. Angelina wrote:

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