What did you do during the Civil War?
President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It didn't take long for those of us who had spent years in anti-slavery and abolition efforts to recognize that Lincoln's action would not be enough to accomplish those long-standing goals.
Mr. Stanton wrote, urging me to leave our farm. "Here then is work for you, Susan, put on your armor and go forth!" I moved into the Stantons' Manhattan home and we organized the Woman's National Loyalty League. At our first meeting on May 14, 1863, we shared a grand idea to kindle and sustain the fires of high enthusiasm--a drive to petition Congress for a constitutional amendment securing the necessary freedoms and achieving emancipation of all slaves. I was the general of the effort. We recruited two thousand petition collectors and, from those efforts, sent four-hundred thousand signatures to congressmen who supported our cause. The Thirteenth Amendment passed the Senate on April 8 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865.
President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863. It didn't take long for those of us who had spent years in anti-slavery and abolition efforts to recognize that Lincoln's action would not be enough to accomplish those long-standing goals.
Mr. Stanton wrote, urging me to leave our farm. "Here then is work for you, Susan, put on your armor and go forth!" I moved into the Stantons' Manhattan home and we organized the Woman's National Loyalty League. At our first meeting on May 14, 1863, we shared a grand idea to kindle and sustain the fires of high enthusiasm--a drive to petition Congress for a constitutional amendment securing the necessary freedoms and achieving emancipation of all slaves. I was the general of the effort. We recruited two thousand petition collectors and, from those efforts, sent four-hundred thousand signatures to congressmen who supported our cause. The Thirteenth Amendment passed the Senate on April 8 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865.
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