Article: A powerful partnership.(Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony)

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A chance meeting on a street in Seneca Falls, New York, dramatically altered history. In the spring of 1851, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were introduced after an abolitionist meeting. "There [Susan] stood," wrote Stanton years later, "with her good earnest face and genial smile.... I liked her immediately." It was the beginning of one of the most famous friendships in American history.

Stanton lived in Seneca Falls with her abolitionist husband and young children. Anthony, a Quaker reformer who lectured on the evils of liquor and the importance of abolition, came to the city to attend antislavery meetings. When ...

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