Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Woodhull Victoria was a radical feminist, and she went as far as to run for president so women would get equal rights as men. This did not work however because before the election she was arrested. This was very controversial at the time, because "Women have no government."
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VictoriaWoodhull
Victoria was a radical feminist, and she went as far as to run for president so women would get equal rights as men. This did not work however because before the election she was arrested. This was very controversial at the time, because many men were against this.
"Women have no government."
What she did.-She advocated free love, and was a Spiritualist.-She was a feminist, and a suffragette.-She was the first woman to run a stock brokerage company with her sister.-She established the Equal Rights Party, and ran as the presidential candidate under that party in 1872.-Wrote, and founded Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, which was a radical paper. It was the first to publish Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto in English.-Wrote Human Body: The Temple of God (1890), and The Humanitarian
Political Cartoon
A political cartoon by Thomas Nast.
The caption is: "Get thee behind me, (Mrs.) Satan! I'd rather travel the hardest path of matrimony than follow your footsteps."
It is criticizing Woodhull's beliefs and that she is the devil.
Questions
What movement's was she involved in?What political party did she start?
