
Helen Kendrick Johnson at 28 (source)
Although the benefits of voting may be obvious to us today, in the 19th century, during the long campaign for women’s suffrage, there were many people, both men and women, who opposed it. One of the more prominent anti-suffragists was Helen Kendrick Johnson, an author, poet, and activist, whose book, Woman and the Republic, was considered one of the best summaries of arguments against suffrage, at least by those who were opposed. In it, she argued that women didn’t need the vote to gain equality and that their role in the “domestic sphere” was essential to maintaining the American republic.
Born in Hamilton, New York on January 4, 1844, Helen was the…
Source: Helen Kendrick Johnson – Author and Anti-Suffrage Activist | Saints, Sisters, and Sluts
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