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SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION – January 4, 1871
The onset of Scott Duniway’s oratorical career is well-known. By her own account, her “maiden speech” occurred during the “log cabin and hard cider” campaign of 1840, when Abigail was about six years old and the Scott family was living in the village of Wesley, on the banks of the Illinois River: “William Henry Harrison […]
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“OPPOSITION” – November 5, 1873
The question of equal suffrage was a lively topic for public and political debate very early in Washington’s history, and Abigail Scott Duniway was a major figure almost from the beginning.1 The question was considered as early as 1854, when a bill was introduced in the lower house of the territory’s first legislature. The bill […]
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“THE DESTINY OF OUR REPUBLIC” – October 5, 1874
This lengthy address is particularly interesting as a window not simply onto Scott Duniway’s views on suffrage and prohibition but onto her broader reformist spirit. In it, she first offers her views on human motivation, echoing the liberal belief that environment influences behavior and the progressivist credo that improvements in the human condition will improve […]
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