Just as the polls opened on November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony
arrived and filled out her "ticket" for the various candidates. But
before it could be placed in the ballot box, a poll watcher
objected, claiming her action violated the laws of New York and the
state constitution. Anthony vehemently protested that as a citizen
of the United States and the state of New York she was entitled to
vote under the Fourteenth Amendment. The poll watchers gave in and
allowed Anthony to deposit her ballots. Anthony was arrested,
charged with a federal crime, and tried in court. Primarily
represented within document collections and broader accounts of the
fight for woman suffrage, Anthony's controversial trial-as a
landmark narrative in the annals of American law-remains a
relatively neglected subject. N. E. H. Hull provides the first
book-length engagement with the legal dimensions of that narrative
and in the process illuminates the laws, politics, and
personalities at the heart of the trial and its outcome. Hull
summarises the woman suffrage movement in the post-Civil War era,
reveals its betrayal by former allies in the abolitionist movement,
and describes its fall into disarray. She then chronicles Anthony's
vote, arrest, and preliminary hearings, as well as the legal and
public relations manoeuvring in the run-up to the trial. She
captures the drama created by Anthony, her attorneys, the
politically ambitious prosecutor, and presiding judge-and Supreme
Court justice-Ward Hunt, who argued emphatically against Anthony's
interpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments as the source of
her voting rights. She then tracks further relevant developments in
the trial's aftermath-including Minor v. Happersett, another key
case for the voting rights of women-and follows the major players
through the eventual passage of the Nineteenth (or "Susan B.
Anthony") Amendment. Hull's concise and readable guide reveals a
story of courage and despair, of sisterhood and rivalry, of high
purpose and low politics. It also underscores for all of us how
Anthony's act of civil disobedience remains essential to our
understanding of both constitutional and women's history-and why it
all matters. This book is part of the Landmark Law Cases and
American Society series.
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