The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . passed into thepossession of the husband ; the rents and profits belonged tohim, and he could sell it during his lifetime or dispose of itby will at his death except her life interest in one-third of thereal estate. The more thoughtful among women were begin-ning to ask why other unjust laws should not also be repealed,and the whole question of the rights of woman was thusopened. In 1848, Spiritualism may be said to have had its birth,and the remarkable m
The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . passed into thepossession of the husband ; the rents and profits belonged tohim, and he could sell it during his lifetime or dispose of itby will at his death except her life interest in one-third of thereal estate. The more thoughtful among women were begin-ning to ask why other unjust laws should not also be repealed,and the whole question of the rights of woman was thusopened. In 1848, Spiritualism may be said to have had its birth,and the remarkable manifestations of the Fox sisters broughtnumbers of people to Rochester, where they had removed assoon as they began to be widely known. This form of religi-ous belief soon acquired a large following, causing much con-troversy and great excitement. The Society of Friends had divided on the slavery issue andMiss Anthony found her family attending the Unitarianchurch, which soon afterwards called William Henry Chan-ning to its pulpit. Both he and Samuel J. May, the father ofUnitarianism in Syracuse, became her steadfast friends and. AUNT HANNAH, THE QUAKER PREACHER, From a Daguerreotype. ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE. 59 never-failing support in all the great work which was developedin later years. In July, 1848, the first Womans Rights Convention hadbeen held in Seneca Falls and adjourned to meet in RochesterAugust 2. Miss Anthonys father, mother and sister Maryhad attended and signed the declaration demanding equalrights for women, and she found them enthusiastic upon thissubject and also over Mrs. Stanton, Lucretia Mott and otherprominent women who had taken part. Her cousin, SarahAnthony Burtis, had acted as secretary of the convention. In 1849 Mrs. Mott published her admirable Discourse onWoman in answer to a lyceuin lecture by Richard H. Danaridiculing the idea of civil and political rights for women. In1847 Frederick Douglass had brought his family to Rochesterand established h
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