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ng on. FOOTNOTES: [69] Harper, _Anthony_, I, pp. 144-145. As John Brown visited Frederick Douglass in Rochester, it is possible that Susan B. Anthony had met him. [70] Oct. 19, 1856, Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection. [71] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 148. [72] _Ibid._, p. 151; also quotation following. [73] Alice Stone Blackwell, _Lucy Stone_ (Boston, 1930), pp. 197-198. [74] Ms., Susan B. Anthony Papers, Library of Congress. [75] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 152. [76] April 20, 1857, Abby Kelley Foster Papers, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. [77] Parker Pillsbury, _The Acts of the Antislavery Apostles_ (Concord, N.H., 1883). [78] Harper, _Anthony_, I. p. 160. [79] March 22, 1858, Blackwell Papers, Edna M. Stantial Collection. [80] N.d., Alma Lutz Collection. [81] Charles A. and Mary B. Beard, _The Rise of American Civilization_ (New York, 1930), II, p. 9. [82] A. M. Schlesinger and H. C. Hockett, _Land of the Free_ (New York, 1944), p. 297. [83] March 19, 1859, Antislavery Papers, Boston Public Library. [84] Francis Jackson, William Lloyd II, and Wendell Phillips Garrison, _William Lloyd Garrison_, 1805-1879 (New York, 1889), III, p. 486. [85] _Ibid._, p. 490. [86] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 181. [87] _Ibid._, p. 180. [88] Henrietta Buckmaster, _Let My People Go_ (New York, 1941), p. 269; Ehrlich, _God's Angry Man_, pp. 344-345, 350. [89] Susan B. Anthony Scrapbook, Library of Congress. In 1890, after visiting the John Brown Memorial at North Elbe, New York, Susan B. Anthony wrote: "John Brown was crucified for doing what he believed God commanded him to do, 'to break the yoke and let the oppressed go free,' precisely as were the saints of old for following what they believed to be God's commands. The barbarism of our government was by so much the greater as our light and knowledge are greater than those of two thousand years ago." Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 708. THE TRUE WOMAN Susan's preoccupation with antislavery work did not lessen her interest in women's advancement. Her own expanding courage and ability showed her the possibilities for all women in widened horizons and activities. These possibilities were the chief topic of conversation when she and Elizabeth Stanton were together. With Mrs. Stanton's young daughters, Margaret and Harriot, in mind, they were continually planning ways and means of developing the new woman,
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