Final Draft For Tamburo 8th Period By Jayden Beavers

Lucy Stone was conceived in West Brookfield on August 13, 1818. Stone, although brighter than her brother, was discouraged by the inequalities which encouraged her to go to college. Lucy Stone spent the majority of her adult years as an Abolitionist activist for women’s right. She disagreed with her father’s belief that women were more important than men. She supported Women’s National Loyal League. In December 1847, she delivered her first speech regarding women’s rights. Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield on August 13, 1818. Lucy Stone was born to Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone. She was one of nine children. Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe and others organized a tea at Faneuil Hall. Women protested the taxation of 1873 without representation. She didn’t live long enough for women to be able to vote. Stone died thirty-years before women gained the right vote.

Stone also refused to conform to her parents’ wishes. Stone, 16 years old, rebelled against her parents’ wishes and went to college after watching her brothers. Stone married Henry Blackwell (an abolitionist and committed activist) in 1855. They had been together for two long years. She initially adopted her husband’s last name but she changed her mind after a year. She wrote her spouse, explaining that her wife should not be able to take her husband’s name. Henry and she both protested the idea by signing a document stating that a husband can legally rule over his wife. Stone, who was paid well to give speeches, maintained a busy schedule and traveled extensively throughout North America to speak about women’s rights. They also had an annual convention in Orange, New Jersey. In the end, they became the parents to Alice Stone Blackwell. Stone was a young girl when she began to feel irritated by the restrictions on female sex. Part of her drive to go to college came from her desire for betterment in herself, and partly from the resolve she had as an infant to learn Hebrew, Greek, and to check if certain passages in Scripture that gave man dominion in relation to women had been properly translated. After graduating Oberlin College (Ohio) in 1847 and becoming a lecturer for Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1847, her permission was granted to spend part of each weekly speaking for women’s equality. She organized the first national women’s rights convention, which was held in 1850.

Stone was thirty-three when she completed college. Stone’s career prospects looked dim considering that few occupations were available to her. William Lloyd Garrison a noted abolitionist hired Stone to help him with his American Anti-Slavery Society. She delivered speeches and wrote abolitionist messages, while being active in women’s rights. Stone, along with other female abolitionists were often harassed and attacked by mobs. She was a popular speaker and soon out-earned many male lecturers.

Stone was alive and saw the reunification in 1890 of the two suffrage groups. Stanton’s daughter Harriot Stantonblatch played an important role in their mothers’ healing. Stone died in 1893 after giving her last speech at The World’s Columbian Exposition. Stone, who was then in a bitter dispute with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, among others, voted for the Constitution’s 14th and fifteenth Amendments. The amendments granted voting rights to both black men and women. Stone accepted this measure to further her abolitionist goals, while still working for women’s equality. Stanton and Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Stone, Julia Ward Howe, among others, founded the American Woman Suffrage Association. Stone edited The Woman’s Journal, a publication of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). Stone registered to vote as a Massachusetts woman in 1879. Massachusetts allows women to vote in local elections. Stone was removed from the rolls however, because she didn’t use the surname of her husband.