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Henry Stanton
A fiery 19th-century reformer, this writer brought the antislavery cause into newspapers, lectures, and politics. His life also intersected with one of the most important families in the early women's rights movement.
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Sex: Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English
by Henry Stanton
About the author
Born in Connecticut in 1805, Henry Brewster Stanton became an American abolitionist, journalist, lawyer, and politician. He studied at Lane Seminary, where he was shaped by the antislavery debates of the era, and went on to write for publications including the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, The Liberator, and the Anti-Slavery Standard.
Stanton was known as a strong public speaker as well as a political organizer. He served in the New York State Senate in the early 1850s, showing how closely reform writing and public life could be connected in his career.
He is also remembered through his marriage to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a central figure in the women's rights movement. Together, their lives touched two major currents of 19th-century American history: abolition and the long campaign for women's equality.