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, particularly married women. her realization that married women had virtually no property, income, employment, or even custody rights over their own children, helped set her course toward changing these inequities. [ ] stanton's mother, margaret livingston cady, a descendant of early dutch settlers,
became allies when the male delegates attending the convention voted that women should be denied participation in the proceedings, even if they, like mott, had been nominated to serve as official delegates of their respective abolitionist societies. after considerable debate, the women were required...
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