at in thehome of a merchant in Fort Edward, New York, then helped her family move to Rochester. Onceher family got settled she began doing work around the house. At the house, her father had dailyconversations about the current issues of the day. She would shuffle back and forth between thekitchen and dining room to participate in these discussions which she so passionately loved. Shewas then appointed principal over the girls’ department Canajoharie Academy and would maintainat that stature until she reached the age of thirty (Holland). It was at her school where principal Anthony became exposed to the Daughters oftemperance. This group of women went right along with Susan B. Anthony’s Quaker moralstandards. They fought for prohibition. They fought to prevent abuses towards themselves ortheir children. She made her first speech in 1849. A few years later, Anthony met Elizabeth CadyStanton and Amelia Bloomer at a convention for anti-slavery. Together they published “TheRevolution”, a New York liberal weekly magazine. This magazine would soon parish and putSusan B. Anthony in debt of 10,000 dollars (Boynick)!According to author, Hope Stoddard, Susan B. Anthony was a firm, upright person. Shewasn’t afraid to show it to anyone and everyone who wanted to know how she felt. One day,during a marriage custody conference, an abolitionist by the name of Rev. A. D. Mayo askedAnthony, in modified words, by what means could she take part in discussions on marriage whenshe was not married herself. She responded to this by saying, in revised words, that he was not aslave, so maybe he should not be taking part in discussions on slavery. It was this kind ofdetermination that led Susan B. Anthony towards gaining women the right to have equalguardianship of their children (Dorr 55).In a period of about twenty years, Anthony supported the United States over theConfederate States of America before and during th...
