On Womens Right to Vote, Susan B. Anthony
On Womens Right to Vote, Susan B. Anthony
List: $3.99 | Sale: $2.80
Club: $1.99

On Women's Right to Vote

Author: Susan B. Anthony

Narrator: Caelen Phillips

Unabridged: 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/25/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Women


Synopsis

After voting in the 1872 presidential election, suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested and charged with a $100 fine. She refused to pay it, instead embarking on a speaking tour around the U.S. to advocate for women’s legal right to vote. In this fiery speech she memorably stated, “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens . . . who formed the Union.” Anthony argued that the fight for women’s right to vote was also a fight for their right to personhood in the eyes of the state, something women were finally granted nearly fifty years later.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on February 29, 2024

This was a good speech, but too short. I would have given it 3 stars anyway except that the narration was so lackluster, one wonders why the narrator bothered to drive to the studio to produce it. I might look up the text of the speech at some future date. It was a good argument, but I doubt I will l......more