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Women and the Vote: Texas and the US struggle to remember
A historical overview by Robert L. Schaadt traces the slow expansion of voting rights for women from colonial times to the Seneca Falls Convention. It notes early property based rights, twists in New Jersey and New York, and the pivotal 1848 Declaration of Sentiments led by Stanton and Mott.
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Texas
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USA
Margaret Brent
Maryland
Deborah Moody
New Netherlands
Lydia Taft
New World
Taft
Uxbridge
Massachusetts
New York
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass
Lucretia Mott
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