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Susan B. Anthony, born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, was one of seven children of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. Though her mother had been raised a Baptist, the young Anthony was brought up in her father's Quaker faith. The Quakers, also known as the Society of Friends, believed in the concept of the Inner Light -- the representation of God in each person's soul -- and did not rely on clergy to lead them to salvation. This egalitarian ethic led many Quakers to participate in the abolitionist movement during the 19th century, including Daniel Anthony, and later, Susan B. Anthony herself. In 1849, she left teaching and her second career as an activist began. She joined the local temperance society, and when she was denied the right to speak at a Sons of Temperance meeting because she was a woman, she founded the Daughters of Temperance, the first women's temperance organization in the country. Anthony began writing temperance articles for the Lily, the country's first woman-owned newspaper. Her rising political profile helped her to meet other activist women, including those involved in the abolitionist movement and suffrage movement. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, three years after Stanton organized the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1852, Anthony attended her first women's-rights conference, and from then until the end of the Civil War, she campaigned and lectured for the abolition of slavery and for equal rights for women.

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