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Henry Brewster Stanton (June 27, 1805 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician. His writing was published in the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, and William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator.
Learn about Henry Brewster Stanton, a courageous and influential leader in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. He married Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a pioneer of the woman suffrage movement, and worked with her and other allies to advance social justice.
The Stanton brothers traced their ancestry to two prominent early New England colonists: William Brewster, religious leader of the Mayflower pilgrims of 1620; and Thomas Stanton, founder of Stonington, Connecticut, in 1666.
Learn about Henry Stanton, a white-American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist, and politician. He was born in 1805, married Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and spoke widely on behalf of abolition and other causes.
Henry Stanton. Henry Brewster Stanton and Elizabeth Cady were married on May 1, 1840 in Johnstown, New York. As a student at the Lane Seminary, Stanton became an accomplished abolionist lecturer and organizer of the Liberty Party. He was a member of the New York Anti-Slavery Society.
Henry Stanton loved his wife, but adding her 1848 woman suffrage agenda to his anti-slavery work would have doomed his efforts for a political solution to slavery. He never publicly supported woman suffrage.
Henry Brewster Stanton (27 de junio de 1805 - 14 de enero de 1887) fue un abolicionista, reformador social, abogado, periodista y político estadounidense. Sus escritos se publicaron en el New York Tribune, el New York Sun y en Anti-Slavery Standard y The Liberator de William Lloyd Garrison.
