Celebrating the Bible in Women's History
The Woman’s Bible — This is the Teaching of National Suffrage Leaders
The Woman’s Bible — This is the Teaching of National Suffrage Leaders
- Collection ID
- PPR.010243
- Type
- Papers
- Date
- ca. 1920
- Geography
- United States
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Printed on Paper
- Dimensions
- 16.6 × 10 × 0.04 in. (42.1 × 25.4 × 0.1 cm)
- Exhibit Location
- Not on View
This broadside was created by antisuffrage activists in an effort to halt the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The campaign for the women’s vote reached a watershed moment in June 1919, when the Senate passed the suffrage amendment. By the following summer, 35 states had ratified the amendment, one short of what was needed for it to become law. Supporters and critics campaigned fiercely to sway public opinion, sometimes appealing to the Bible to support their position. This broadside uses excerpts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible to paint suffrage leaders as anti-Christian and damaging to society, accusing Carrie Chapman Catt, then president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, as being Stanton’s accomplice. It was likely distributed in Southern states such as Tennessee, which became the 36th state to approve the amendment in August 1920.
This broadside was created by antisuffrage activists in an effort to halt the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The campaign for the women’s vote reached a watershed moment in June 1919, when the Senate passed the suffrage amendment. By the following summer, 35 states had ratified the amendment, one short of what was needed for it to become law. Supporters and critics campaigned fiercely to sway public opinion, sometimes appealing to the Bible to support their position. This broadside uses excerpts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible to paint suffrage leaders as anti-Christian and damaging to society, accusing Carrie Chapman Catt, then president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, as being Stanton’s accomplice. It was likely distributed in Southern states such as Tennessee, which became the 36th state to approve the amendment in August 1920.
Printed around 1920 by an unknown printer.[1] Acquired by the 2000s by George H. LaBarre Galleries, New Hampshire; Purchased in 2012 by Rebecca Dodson, private collector, Tennessee;[2] Purchased in 2019 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Notes: [1] While the creator of this broadside is unknown, it was likely a southern branch of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Similar broadsides include a printer’s mark for Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., Raleigh, North Carolina. Likewise, there are accounts of similar broadsides being distributed in Nashville in the days leading up to Tennessee’s vote. See Kathi Kern, Mrs. Stanton's Bible (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), 4–5. [2] This is one of three copies of the same broadside sold by LaBarre Galleries to Rebecca Dodson in 2012.
Printed around 1920 by an unknown printer.[1] Acquired by the 2000s by George H. LaBarre Galleries, New Hampshire; Purchased in 2012 by Rebecca Dodson, private collector, Tennessee;[2] Purchased in 2019 by Green Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, under the curatorial care of Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Notes: [1] While the creator of this broadside is unknown, it was likely a southern branch of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Similar broadsides include a printer’s mark for Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., Raleigh, North Carolina. Likewise, there are accounts of similar broadsides being distributed in Nashville in the days leading up to Tennessee’s vote. See Kathi Kern, Mrs. Stanton's Bible (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), 4–5. [2] This is one of three copies of the same broadside sold by LaBarre Galleries to Rebecca Dodson in 2012.
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