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Do your job, local suffragette urges
By adamg on Mon, 11/07/2016 - 6:14pm
The statue of suffragist Lucy Stone (the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree) on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall was freshly bedecked with flowers yesterday, as Leslee captured.
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Her daughter carried on after she died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Stone_Blackwell
Fortunately for Alice, she lived to be able to vote - for the last 31 years of her life!
She was also the first person
She was also the first person to be cremated in Massachusetts!
A bust of her is in Faneuil Hall where she had an event demanding the right to vote and urging women to stop paying taxes until it happened on December 15, 1873, almost 100 years after the original Tea Party.
Taxes
I know, I know-- there's Google, but I'd rather rely on the U Hub hive for an accurate answer. Besides, I'm heading out to vote :-)
I'm just curious what taxes Stone might have been referring to? Federal taxes? MA. taxes? Aside from a brief period during the Civil War, there was no income tax until the next century & the Wilson administration. Also, even in 1873, full property rights (own & sell property, enter into a contract, earn a salary etc.) did not extend to all women & those which existed usually only applied to married women So what taxes might a woman be subject to in 1873?.
I went to Wikipedia, and it
I went to Wikipedia, and it seems she is speaking of property taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone
"The previous summer she and Blackwell had purchased a house in Orange, New Jersey, and when the first tax bill came, Stone returned it unpaid with the explanation that taxing women while denying them the right to vote was a violation of America’s founding principles.On January 22, 1858, the city auctioned some of her household goods to pay the tax and attendant court costs.[99] The following month, Stone and Blackwell spoke on taxation without representation before two large meetings in Orange, and circulated petitions asking the New Jersey legislature for woman suffrage.[100] Stone’s protest inspired other tax-paying women to action: some followed her example and refused to pay taxes, with one case reaching the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1863, while others went to the polls to demand their right as tax-payers to vote.[101]" (Citations at the article)
No representation
No taxation.
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