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Anthony’s first paid position was headmistress of the girls department of Canajoharie Academy in 1846. During this time she was deeply troubled by the fact that women received much lower wages than their male counterparts for equal work. She returned to the family farm in Rochester New York when Canajoharie Academy closed in 1849. At this time she began to be fully involved in reform work. She was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 who had played a key role in organizing the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, which was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. The two of them formed a lifelong friendship and ever after were constant partners in the battle for women’s rights and social justice. Their relationship was complimentary: Stanton did the writing and came up with ideas while Anthony excelled at organizing and delivering speeches. Her methods of raising public awareness and building grassroots support for social causes are still in use by political parties today. From the beginning the women’s movement was closely …show more content…

She worked closely with early leaders of the abolitionist movement and assisted in the activities of the Underground Railroad to deliver runaway slaves to freedom in Canada. As a member of Daughters of Temperance she began to make her first public speeches. But when she attempted to speak at a state temperance convention she was stopped by male chairman. In response she formed the Women’s State temperance Society in 1852. She often found that even in organizations supporting social reform the right of women to speak in public was often opposed. Nevertheless Anthony persevered and soon she was delivering 100 to 150 speeches per year, traveling tirelessly under frequently adverse conditions in support of social reform causes. From this time forth, fees from public speaking became her main source of

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