Chapter VIII A War for Freedom
134 Garrisons, Garrison, IV, pp. 30-31.
135 Lydia Mott to W. L. Garrison, May 8, 1861, Boston Public Library; Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, p. 89.
136 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 215.
137 Ibid., p. 216. Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave, was often called the Moses of her people because she led so many of them into the promised land of freedom.
138 Ibid.
139 Ibid., p. 198.
140 Anna E. Dickinson was born in Philadelphia in 1842. The death of her father, two years later, left the family in straightened circumstances, and Anna, after attending a Friends school, began very early to support herself by copying in lawyers’ offices and by working at the U.S. Mint. Speaking extemporaneously at Friends and antislavery meetings, she discovered she had a gift for oratory and was soon in demand as a speaker.
141 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 219.
142 April, 1862. History of Woman Suffrage, I, p. 748.
143 Harper, Anthony, I, pp. 218, 222.
144 Emancipation, the Duty of Government, Ms., Lucy E. Anthony Collection. Reading that General Grant had returned 13 slaves to their masters, an indignant Susan B. Anthony wrote Mrs. Stanton, “Such gratuitous outrage should be met with instant death—without judge or jury—if any offense may.” Feb. 27, 1862, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
145 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 221.
146 Jan. 24, 1904, Anna Dann Mason Collection.
147 Harper, Anthony, p. 226.
148 The first woman in the United States to obtain a medical degree, 1849.
149 History of Woman Suffrage, II, pp. 57-58.
150 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 230. Members of the Women’s National Loyal League wore a silver pin showing a slave breaking his last chains and bearing the inscription, “In emancipation is national unity.” Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Drake, Sept. 18, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection.
151 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 234.
152 Ibid., To Samuel May, Jr., Sept. 21, 1863, Alma Lutz Collection.
153 April 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress.
154 Harper, Anthony, I, p. 230.
155 June 12, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, July 1, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. About this time, a friend of Susan B. Anthony’s youth, now a widower living in Ohio in comfortable circumstances, unsuccessfully urged her to marry him.
156 Sept. 23, 1864, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.
157 Stanton and Blatch, Stanton, II, pp. 103-104.
158 March 14, 1864, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress.