Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government - Victoria Claflin Woodhull - Bog

In post-Civil War America, the newly freed slaves had the right to vote, but women-regardless of their race-did not. In this era, Victoria Claflin Woodhull came of age politically, and was one of the leading lights in the fight for true equal rights. The first woman to testify before Congress, the first to be nominated for President (in 1872, by the Equal Rights Party), and one of the first to own her own brokerage house on Wall Street, she had very definite ideas about how to imp