{"id":625,"date":"2020-04-24T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/?page_id=625"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:18:34","slug":"1b-freethinkers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/votes-for-delaware-women\/home\/1-citizenship-and-voting-rights\/1b-freethinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"1b &#8211; Freethinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free-thinkers such as Ezra Heywood and Tennie C. Claflin rejected the authority of religious leaders, believing that many thinkers distorted the messages of the Bible and Christianity. Often denounced as radicals who would destroy basic social institutions such as marriage, they braved censorship and (in Heywood\u2019s case) arrest in order to disseminate their ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tennie\nC. Claflin, along with her sister, Victoria Woodhull, and other women\u2019s rights\nadvocates such as Delaware-born Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893), seized upon\nthe constitutional changes of the 1860s to claim citizens\u2019 rights. In her 1871\nbook, Claflin included a review of the U.S. Constitution and laid out the\nargument that women citizens were entitled to equal rights, including the right\nto vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ezra H. (Ezra Hervey) Heywood (1829-1893). <em>Uncivil Liberty : An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman against Her Consent<\/em>. Princeton, Mass. : Cooperative Publishing Company, 1871.<\/li><li>Tennie C. (Tennessee Celeste) Claflin (1845-1923). <em>Constitutional Equality a Right of Woman<\/em>. New York : Woodhull, Claflin, &amp; Co., 1871.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SUFFRAGENTS<\/strong> &#8211; Floyd Dell was a novelist, critic, writer, feminist, and suffragist. As a group, male suffragists are sometimes termed \u201csuffragents.\u201d While working in Chicago as editor of the avant-garde <em>Friday Literary Review<\/em>, Dell wrote and edited the essays that he collected into this, his first book, in 1913. Years later, in 1937, while working for the New Deal in Washington, D.C., he inscribed a copy to an admirer, reiterating his identity as \u201ca Feminist.\u201d The essays, as shown on the table of contents reproduced here, celebrated an international group of feminists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Floyd Dell (1887-1969). <em>Women as World Builders<\/em>. Chicago : Forbes and Company, 1913. Author\u2019s inscribed presentation copy to Paul S. Seybolt with autograph signed letter tipped in.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free-thinkers such as Ezra Heywood and Tennie C. Claflin rejected the authority of religious leaders, believing that many thinkers distorted the messages of the Bible and Christianity. Often denounced as radicals who would destroy basic social institutions such as marriage, they braved censorship and (in Heywood\u2019s case) arrest in order to disseminate their ideas. 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