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The promised land of fugitives--"Uncle Tom's Cabin"--Salem Convention,
1850--Akron, 1851--Massilon, 1853--The address to the women of
Ohio--The Mohammedan law forbidding pigs, dogs, women, and other
impure animals to enter a Mosque--The _New York Tribune_--Cleveland
Convention, 1853--Hon. Joshua K. Giddings--Letter from Horace
Greeley--A glowing eulogy to Mary Wollstonecraft--William Henry
Channing's Declaration--The pulpit and public sentiment--President Asa
Mahan debates--The Rev. Dr. Nevin pulls Mr. Garrison's nose--
Antoinette L. Brown describes her exit from the World's Temperance
Convention--Cincinnati Convention, 1855--Jane Elizabeth Jones'
Report, 1861 101
CHAPTER VII.
REMINISCENCES BY CLARINA I. HOWARD NICHOLS.
VERMONT: Editor _Windham County Democrat_--Property Laws, 1847 and
1849--Address to the Legislature on school suffrage, 1852.
WISCONSIN: Woman's State Temperance Society--Lydia F. Fowler in
company--Opposition of Clergy--"Woman's Rights" wouldn't
do--Advertised "Men's Rights."
KANSAS: Free State Emigration, 1854--Gov. Robinson and
Senator Pomeroy--Woman's Rights speeches on Steamboat, and at
Lawrence--Constitutional Convention, 1859--State Woman Suffrage
Association--John O. Wattles, President--Aid from the Francis Jackson
Fund--Canvassing the State--School Suffrage gained.
MISSOURI: Lecturing at St. Joseph, 1858, on Col. Scott's
Invitation--Westport and the John Brown raid, 1859--St. Louis,
1854--Frances D. Gage, Rev. Wm. G. Eliot, and Rev. Mr. Weaver 171
CHAPTER VIII.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Women in the Revolution--Anti-Tea Leagues--Phillis Wheatley--Mistress
Anne Hutchinson--Heroines in the Slavery Conflict--Women Voting under
the Colonial Charter--Mary Upton Ferrin Petitions the Legislature in
1848--Woman's Rights Convention in 1850, '51--Letter of Harriet
Martineau from England--Letter of Jeannie Deroine from a Prison Cell
in Paris--Editorial from _The Christian Enquirer_--_The Una_, edited
by Paulina Wright Davis--Constitutional Convention in 1858--Before the
Legislature in 1857--Harriot K. Hunt's Protest against Taxation--Lucy
Stone's Protest against the Marriage Laws--Boston Conventions--
Theodore Parker on Woman's Position 201
CHAPTER IX.
INDIANA AND WISCONSIN.
Indiana Missionary Station--Gen. Arthur St. Clair--Indian
surprises--The terrible war-whoop--One hundred women join the army,
and are killed fighting bravely--Prairie schooners--Manufactures in
the hands of women--Admitted to the Union in 1816--Robert Dale
Owen--Woman Suffrage Conventions--Wisconsin--C. L. Sholes' report 290
CHAPTER X.
PENNSYLVANIA.
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