Despite these setbacks, New Jersey women continued to advocate for equal rights
in 1852, and throughout the decade, women petitioned the legislature for further rights
women’s rights conventions were held in the East and Midwest almost yearly until the
Civil War (1861–1865). At the 1850 National Woman’s Rights Convention in Worcester,
While New Jersey did not have an organized women’s rights movement during
Sojourner Truth, Detroit, 1854
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Lucy Stone, ca. 1850
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