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By 1834 women had become so active in the petition campaign to Congress to end slavery in the District of Columbia that the AASS printed a special form for them. While this form did not explicitly assert women’s right to petition, it did argue that women’s petitions were appropriate to the political moment. Hundreds of women who signed these forms thronged to hear the Grimké sisters speak in 1836 and 1837.
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Sklar, K.K. (2000). American Anti-Slavery Society. In: Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04527-0_7
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