... her mother, the former Margaret Livingston, was the daughter of a Revolutionary War officer. Elizabeth was the fourth of six children, of whom only one was a boy (www.rootsweb.com). Her brother Eleazer's death, when she was eleven years old, was a turning point in Elizabeth's life. Not only was she faced with ... home to her father with the thrilling news. But though her father was pleased, he sighed in regret, "Ah, you should have been a boy (www.elibrary.bigchalk.com)!- This early lesson of male prejudice was reinforced as she became aware of the troubles of the suffering women who bro...

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... of the civil war (Gurko 27). It was after the civil war, that the movement suffered a setback. The main focus of political reform that dominated after the civil war was Black suffrage. This very much so influenced the struggle for women suffrage. The abolitionists, whom the women had fought for and felt they were allies with, turned their back on the ... of all other contracts, carefully made, the parties of age, and all agreements faithfully observed. She pointed out, that on the contrary to the aforesaid, marriage is often enter into boy boys and girls twelve and fourteen years of age...

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... of the civil war (Gurko 27). It was after the civil war, that the movement suffered a setback. The main focus of political reform that dominated after the civil war was Black suffrage. This very much so influenced the struggle for women suffrage. The abolitionists, whom the women had fought for and felt they were allies with, turned their back on the ... of all other contracts, carefully made, the parties of age, and all agreements faithfully observed. She pointed out, that on the contrary to the aforesaid, marriage is often enter into boy boys and girls twelve and fourteen years of age...

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... the start of the civil war . It was after the civil war, that the movement suffered a setback. The main focus of political reform that dominated after the civil war was Black suffrage. This very much so influenced the struggle for women suffrage. The abolitionists, whom the women had fought for and felt they were allies with, turned their back on the ... of all other contracts, carefully made, the parties of age, and all agreements faithfully observed. She pointed out, that on the contrary to the aforesaid, marriage is often enter into boy boys and girls twelve and fourteen years of age...

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