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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 lawyer, journalist, and politician who fought for the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women. He married Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leader of the women's suffrage movement, and collaborated with her and other reformers.
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.
He was a white-American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist, and politician. Henry Brewster Stanton was born in Preston, Connecticut, the son of Joseph Stanton and Susan M. Brewster. His father manufactured woolen goods and traded with the West Indies.
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.
