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How a local suffragist led the mother of all movements

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was 26 years old when her first child, a son, was born.  “I was entirely afloat, launched on the seas of doubt without chart or compass,” she wrote in her autobiography, “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815–1897.”  Stanton was one of 11 children, five of whom died as infants and small children. As she watched her mother grieve the…

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