Item #140948197 Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children. Tennie C. Claflin, Tennessee Celeste Claflin.
Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.
Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.
Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.
Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.
Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.
Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.

Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; Or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children.

New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1871.

First edition, first printing. [vi], 148 pp., steel engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Bound in publisher's chestnut pebbled cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Near Fine with light wear and light soiling to covers. Scattered foxing to prelims, offsetting from frontispiece to title page, light toning and occasional thumbing throughout.

The first edition of Tennessee (Tennie) Claflin's feminist argument that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments gave women the right to vote, published the same year that her sister Victoria Woodhull appeared before Congress to make the same case. The text was undoubtably written by Stephen Pearl Andrews, the sisters’ usual ghostwriter. Claflin and Woodhull were impressive public speakers, but their formal education had ended at a very young age and they could hardly spell. Andrews was a polyglot anarchist, abolitionist, and proponent of Free Love, and as the chief writer for the sisters’ weekly newspaper he expanded his range to include women’s rights and spiritualism.

Claflin’s frontispiece portrait shows her with the short haircut and mannish style of dress that she and Woodhull (always a matched set) adopted when they opened their stock brokerage firm in 1870. The firm died in an economic slump three years later, and the pretty sisters decamped for England and provided themselves with wealthy and affectionate husbands. Their time in the suffragist movement and the world of finance was brief, but it made a lasting impact, and Tennessee Claflin became something of a revered mother figure for the next generation of champions for women’s suffrage. Item #140948197

Price: $3,500

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