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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Sitter
Lucy Stone, 13 Oct 1818 - 18 Oct 1893
Date
c. 1855
Type
Photograph
Medium
Half-plate daguerreotype
Dimensions
Image/Sight: 13.1 × 10.1 cm (5 3/16 × 4")
Mat (brass): 18.4 × 15.2 cm (7 1/4 × 6")
Case open: 19.9 × 33.4 × 0.8 cm (7 13/16 × 13 1/8 × 5/16")
Case closed: 19.9 × 16.9 × 2 cm (7 13/16 × 6 5/8 × 13/16")
Topic
Interior
Printed Material\Book
Costume\Outerwear\Shawl
Cased object
Lucy Stone: Female
Lucy Stone: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
Lucy Stone: Journalism and Media\Magazine editor
Lucy Stone: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Abolitionist
Lucy Stone: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist\Suffragist
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.77.271
Exhibition Label
Born West Brookfield, Massachusetts
Lucy Stone was unequivocal in her opposition to slavery and her support for women’s rights. Yet, when some abolitionists argued that her antislavery efforts should take precedence, she replied, “I was a woman before I was an abolitionist.” Stone helped to organize the first national women’s rights confer- ence in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1850, and lectured widely on the topic of women’s suffrage. When she married Henry Blackwell in 1855, she defied tradition by retaining her maiden name. In 1866, Stone became a founder of the American Equal Rights Association, which sought to secure voting rights for African Americans and women.
Nacida en West Brookfield, Massachusetts
Lucy Stone era firme opositora de la esclavitud y defensora de los derechos de la mujer. Pero cuando ciertos abolicionistas alegaron que sus esfuerzos antiesclavistas debían tener precedencia, respondió: “Antes que abolicionista, fui mujer”. Stone ayudó a organizar la primera conferencia nacional sobre los derechos de la mujer en Worcester, Massachusetts, en 1850, y dio conferencias acerca del sufragio femenino. En 1855 se casó con Henry Blackwell y rompió con la tradición conservando su apellido de soltera. En 1866 cofundó la Asociación Americana Pro Igualdad de Derechos, que abogaba por el voto para los afroamericanos y las mujeres.
