Subtitle: Volume One: In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866
Editor: Ann D. Gordon
Subject: History/Women's Studies
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2317-6
Pages: 600 pp. 20 b & w illus.

In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866 is the first of six volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The collection documents the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause. Their names were synonymous with woman suffrage in the United States and around the world as they mobilized thousands of women to fight for the right to a political voice.

Opening when Stanton was twenty-five and Anthony was twenty, and ending when Congress sent the Fourteenth Amendment to the states for ratification, this volume recounts a quarter of a century of staunch commitment to political change. Readers will enjoy an extraordinary collection of letters, speeches, articles, and diaries that tells a story-both personal and public-about abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage.

When all six volumes are complete, the Selected Papers of Stanton and Anthony will contain over 2,000 texts transcribed from their originals, the authenticity of each confirmed or explained, with notes to allow for intelligent reading. The papers will provide an invaluable resource for examining the formative years of women's political participation in the United States. No library or scholar of women's history should be without this original and important collection.

Ann D. Gordon is an associate research professor of history at Rutgers University.

Key Points:

o Funded, in part, by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency.

o The six-volume collection will record the first half century of women's campaign for political rights in the US and provide the primary reference point for examining women's political history in the nineteenth century.

o Annotated notes to allow for informed reading of the letters.

o Each volume will be individually indexed.