
The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Created Equal | 1
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Elizabeth Katy Stanton
As a teenager, katy's family wealth gave her access to an education women were denied. She attended an all female boarding school where she received rigorous instruction in history, mathematics, philosophy and science. After graduating at aged 18, she began spending more time with her cousin, a wealthy and influential abolitionist whose up state home was a stop on the underground railroad. There katy met runaway slaves and outspoken activists and learned the politics of radical reform. At 24 years old,. katy was petite, witty and carismatic, with curly hair and sparkling eyes. Stanton, ten years her senior, was smitten, and the pair quickly struck up a passionate romance. Despite
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