The Legal Condition of Women in Massachusetts.

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Samuel Edmund Sewall (1799–1888) was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and suffragist. Inspired by William Lloyd Garrison, he became one of the founders of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and utilized his legal expertise to defend and represent numerous fugitive slaves in cases like those of George Latimer, Shadrach Minkins, Eliza Small, and Polly Ann Bates.

Sewall was also a strong supporter of women’s rights, advocating for equality and suffrage. He supported female reformers like Lucretia Mott and the Grimké sisters, who faced criticism for their public speaking, and he supported Abby Kelley despite objections within the American Anti-Slavery Society about her prominent role.

Sewall’s tract examined gender-based civil rights inequalities, highlighting contradictions in the Massachusetts Constitution, which claimed equality for all its citizens. The final five pages reprints the Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association, lists the association’s officers, and advertises for The Woman’s Journal, co-edited by Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, etc. Sewall was married to Harriet Winsow List, she being, at one point, an an editor of this journal.

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