Stone, Lucy

Life Span
to
Full name
Lucy Stone
Place of Birth
West Brookfield, MA
Burial Place
Jamaica Plain, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Female
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
Francis Stone (father), Hannah Matthews (mother)
Education
Other
Other Education
Oberlin College, OH
Occupation
Educator
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Other
Other Religion
Congregationalist
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Women’s Rights

Lucy Stone (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Lucy Stone was a key figure in the American woman's rights movement for nearly a half century, bringing it from tutelage within the abolitionist movement to full organizational autonomy. Firmly committed to natural rights irrespective of sex, Stone maintained a distance from more controversial gender issues, such as divorce and free love. Instead, she worked tirelessly as lecturer, organizer, publisher, and tactician in pursuit of full legal equality, particularly the enfranchisement of women.
Carol Lasser, "Stone, Lucy," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00663.html.
Date Event
The National Convention of the Women of America is meeting in New York City
- Sixth National Women's Rights Convention held in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Seventh National Women's Rights Convention held in New York City
- Eighth National Women's Rights Convention held in New York City
- Tenth National Women's Rights Convention held in New York City
Date Title
William Wilkins to James Watson Webb, March 26, 1860
Chicago Style Entry Link
Burnett, Constance Buel. Five for Freedom: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt. New York: Abelard Press, 1953. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Stone, Lucy," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12183.