elizabeth katy stanton. maiden name katy. and married name stanton. elizabeth cady stanton. and one history yab has looked at the women who became abolitionists and/or women's rights activists in this generation and has discovered that many of them were first-borns. they were either the oldest child in the family or the oldest daughter in the family. many of them were highly educated. and that's certainly true for elizabeth cady. she's the daughter of a judge. she was born in the 18 teens. she grows up in a household of considerable comfort. her family is quite affluent. and hir father had a large private library in the house. and young elizabeth loved to read those books. and she said to her father once, you know, when i grow up i'm going to be a lawyer. and her father said to her -- this is the early 19th century. he said to her, what? just take a guess. he said no. he said you can't be a lawyer because you're a? you're a girl. you know, women cannot be lawyers. and mr. cady, without perhaps intending to be cruel, said to his daughter elizabeth several times, because eliza

cassius clay published a memoir, elizabeth cady stanton published one. there are lots of citations. you want me to give you some after class? okay. yeah. these are often very verbal people, highly verbal, highly articulate. they have things to say. they leave quite a large paper trail for a small number of people. any other questions, comments? okay. let's talk about the pro slavery response. slave owners are paying attention. they notice when slavery comes under this fierce attack. and they counterattack. the slave owning elite in the united states, they fight back. and all slave owners did that throughout the 19th century. whenever anti-slavery movements get started in other parts of the world, in the british empire, in spain, in other places in central and south america, slave owners respond and they fight back. and they try their best to stop emancipation. they cling to that institution which has benefitted them so much. and in the united states that happens. slave owners notice right away that the abolitionist movement has geared up and these people are mounting a direct rhetor

and you could name susan be anthony, elizabeth cady stanton and i could tell you i have run names likethat by my publisher and i get a yawn. because, compared to, i don't know, let's say abraham lincoln, there's a huge margin for all things lincoln. there is quite a small margin for suffrage. i'm going to tell you a story about a historical colleague of mine who had written, he was trying to come up with a subject for his third book. he was a faculty member at one of the colleges in the philadelphia philadelphia area and he wanted to write for a broader audience. he was trying to come up with some general that he could write about and his area was world war ii so he presented, joseph silverman and the editor he was talking with, not that many people, i don't think it's much of that and he mentioned a couple of other sort of second -ranked generals. and then at a loss and his field was in particular the pacific year of the war, and so he could dig up anything else and he threw up his hands and said in a tone, a throwaway line, he said well i guess i could write another biography of doug