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American Library Association Amelia Bloomer List Finalist Midwest
Book Awards Winner Foreword INDIE Awards Finalist Benjamin Franklin
Award Silver Award "All the crimes which I was not guilty of rushed
through my mind. I failed to remember that I was a born criminal-a
woman."-Matilda Joslyn Gage Radical, feminist, writer,
suffragist-Matilda Joslyn Gage changed the course of United States
history. She fought for equal rights for women not dependent on
race, class, or religion. Yet her name has faded into obscurity.
She is overlooked when her comrades, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, are celebrated. In the first biography on this
important woman, Angelica Shirley Carpenter explores Gage's life,
including her rise and fall within the movement she helped build.
Carpenter's next book, The Voice of Liberty, features the woman
suffrage movement's rousing protest of the Statue of Liberty. In
1886, Gage and other suffrage supporters sailed a cattle barge into
the center of the dedication. Find out why they opposed this
national icon by visiting sdhspress.com.
In 1886, the Statue of Liberty came to America. If Liberty had been
a real woman, she would have had no voice in her new country. She
could not vote or run for office. The men in charge of unveiling
the statue in New York Harbor even declared that women could not
set foot on the island during the welcoming ceremony. That did not
stop New York suffragists Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lillie Devereux
Blake, and Katherine ("Katie") Devereux Blake. They wanted women to
have the liberty to vote and participate in government. They were
determined to give the new statue a voice. But, first, they had to
find a boat. Matilda, Lillie, and Katie organized hundreds of
people and sailed a cattle barge to the front of the day's
ceremony-making news and raising their voices for LIBERTY.
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