I thank Edna M. Stantial for permission to examine and quote from the Blackwell Papers; Anna Dann Mason for permission to read her reminiscences and the many letters written to her by Susan B. Anthony; Ellen Garrison for permission to quote from letters of Lucretia Mott and Martha C. Wright; Eleanor W. Thompson for copies of Susan B. Anthony's letters to Amelia Bloomer; Henry R. Selden II whose grandfather was Susan B. Anthony's lawyer during her trial for voting; Judge John Van Voorhis whose grandfather was associated with Judge Selden in Miss Anthony's defense; William B. Brown for information about the early history of Adams, Massachusetts, the Susan B. Anthony birthplace, and the Friends Meeting House in Adams; Dr. James Harvey Young for information about Anna E. Dickinson; Margaret Lutz Fogg for help in connection with the trial of Susan B. Anthony; Dr. Blake McKelvey, City Historian of Rochester; Clara Sayre Selden and Wheeler Chapin Case of the Rochester Historical Society; the grand-nieces of Susan B. Anthony, Marion and Florence Mosher; Matilda Joslyn Gage II; Florence L. C. Kitchelt; and Rose Arnold Powell. I thank _The Christian Science Monitor_ for permission to use portions of an article published on October 24, 1958. I am especially grateful to A. Marguerite Smith for her constructive criticism of the manuscript and her unfailing encouragement. ALMA LUTZ _Highmeadow_ _Berlin, New York_ TABLE OF CONTENTS QUAKER HERITAGE 1 WIDENING HORIZONS 15 FREEDOM TO SPEAK 28 A PURSE OF HER OWN 39 NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS 56 THE TRUE WOMAN 67 THE ZEALOT 79 A WAR FOR FREEDOM 92 THE NEGRO'S HOUR 108 TIMES THAT TRIED WOMEN'S SOULS 125 HE ONE WORD OF THE HOUR 138 WORK, WAGES, AND THE BALLOT 149 THE INADEQUATE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT 159 A HOUSE DIVIDED 169 A NEW SLANT ON THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 180 TESTING THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT 198 "IS IT A CRIME FOR A CITIZEN ... TO VOTE?" 209 SOCIAL PURITY 217 A FEDERAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT 226 RECORDING WOMEN'S HISTORY 235