May 15, 2025 - Sale 2704

Sale 2704 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Seneca Falls Convention.
Woman's Rights—A Convention, Newspaper Report, New-York Weekly Tribune.

New York: Greeley & McElrath, August 5, 1848.

Tabloid-format newspaper, Vol. VII, No. 48, issue 360; consisting of eight pages, complete issue; containing a short piece on the first woman's rights convention; old folds, some toning, 20¼x 15¼ in.

"The members of the Convention 'anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation and ridicule' as they 'enter upon the great work' before them. [They] intend, however, to employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and National Legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the Pulpit and the Press."

"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. [...] He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life."