The Woman Who Dared to Vote

by Hull, N. E. H.

• ISBN13: 9780700618491
• ISBN10: 070061849X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-24
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

Just as the polls opened on November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony arrived and filled out her "ticket" for the various candidates. But before it could be placed in the ballot box, a poll watcher objected, claiming her action violated the laws of New York and the state constitution. Anthony vehemently protested that as a citizen of the United States and the state of New York she was entitled to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment. The poll watchers gave in and allowed Anthony to deposit her ballots. Anthony was arrested, charged with a federal crime, and tried in court. N.E. H. Hull provides the first book-length engagement with the legal dimensions of that narrative and, in the process, illuminates the laws, politics, and personalities at the heart of the trial and its outcome. Book jacket.

Author Biography

N.E.H. Hull is Distinguished Professor of Law and a member of the graduate faculty in history at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Roscoe Pound and Karl Llewellyn: Searching/or an American Jurisprudence and Female Felons: Women and Serious Crime in Colonial Massachusetts, and coauthor of The Supreme Court: An Essential History; Impeachment in America, 1635-1805; Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England, 1558-1803; and Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Why the Trial of Susan B. Anthony Matters	p. xiii
Prologue. "Is Not This a Wonderful Time-[An] Era Long to Be Remembered"	p. xvii
"We Represent Fifteen Million People": Summer 1865-Fall 1869	p. 1
"Entitled to the Unabridged Exercise of Privileges and Immunities": Fall 1869-Fall 1872	p. 31
"I Have Been & Gone & Done It!!": Fall 1872-Winter 1873	p. 58
"There Is No Time Now to Indulge in Personal Enmity": January 1873-May 1873	p. 88
"On the Part of the Government, There Is No Question": June 17-18, 1873	p. 114
"Had the Defendant, Being a Female, the Right to Vote?": June 18-19, 1873	p. 146
"Selfish Male Tyranny": June 20, 1873-March 29, 1875	p. 179
Postscript: To the Nineteenth Amendment	p. 209
Chronology	p. 211
Bibliographical Essay	p. 213
Index	p. 221
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