Married this day in 1855: women’s rights activist Lucy Stone and women’s rights supporter Henry Blackwell
At their wedding, Stone
and Blackwell read a statement denouncing the loss of a woman’s rights upon
marriage. Stone became the first woman in the nation to retain her own surname
after marrying.
“While acknowledging our
mutual affection by publicly assuming the relationship of husband and wife, yet
in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it a duty to declare
that this act on our part implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary
obedience to such of the present laws of marriage, as refuse to recognize the
wife as an independent, rational being, while they confer upon the husband an
injurious and unnatural superiority, investing him with legal powers which no
honorable man would exercise, and which no man should possess.”
For full text of the
Stone-Blackwell Protest Against the Laws of Marriage go here.
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