-- August 13th (1818): American reformer Lucy Stone was born on her familys farm at Coys Hill in West Brookfield, MA. Stone was a prominent orator, and an early advocate of antislavery and women’s rights, at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone helped initiate the first National Womens Rights Convention, along with a number of other local, state and regional activist conventions. (It is her 1852 speech at the National Womans Rights Convention in Syracuse NY that is credited for converting Susan B. Anthony to the cause of women’s rights.) Many people in her audiences opposed her views. They commonly disrupted her lectures. Sometimes they would shout her down. On other occasions, people would throw Bibles and claim that she was violating Gods word. Stone had studied both Greek and Hebrew at Oberlin and personally translated several Bible passages about the roles of men and women. She concluded that the accepted view was incorrect. She was raised in the Congregational Church, but many Congregationalists disagreed with her findings. In 1851 she was expelled from the West Brookfield congregation for being engaged in a course of life evidently inconsistent with her covenant engagements to this church and soon joined a Unitarian Church. uuworld.org/2004/02/lookingback.html
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