'Anthony’s experience with the teacher’s union, temperance and antislavery reforms, and Quaker upbringing, laid fertile ground for a career in women’s rights reform to grow.' (NPS)Īnthony became lifelong friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another staunch women’s rights activist. As a teacher, she noticed that she was paid a fraction of her male counterparts. At an early age, she was already aware of injustices witnessing her father’s refusal to purchase cotton from slave labor.
Anthony to her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1902, Source: National Endowment for the HumanitiesĪnthony was born in 1820 near Adams, Massachusetts to a family of Quakers.
“It is fifty-one years since we first met, and we have been busy through every one of them, stirring up the world to recognize the rights of women.'
