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Woman’s National Loyal League

Organized in 1863 by women’s rights leaders and abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the Woman’s National Loyal League supported the proposed Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution banning slavery in the United States. At the founding convention, attendees adopted resolutions supporting the government as long as it pursued freedom for slaves and pledged to collect one million signatures calling for passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Stanton served as the organization’s president and Anthony as its secretary.

Two thousand women, men, and children circulated the petitions, with Stanton offering honor badges to the children who collected 100 names. The league gathered 100,000 names, presenting them to the U.S. Senate on February 9, 1864. When the league disbanded in August 1864, it had collected 400,000 signatures. The Thirteenth Amendment passed Congress in early 1865 and was ratified by the states that year.

See also: Abolitionist Movement, Women in the; Anthony, Susan Brownell; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

References: Flexner and Fitzpatrick, Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States, enlarged edition (1996).

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