When Frederick Douglass went to dine at the Anthony home, powerful forces went to work.
Join me for a look at the striking statues of these two at the Susan B. Anthony Square near her home in Rochester, NY.
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Quakerism was at the center of the Anthony family. It was a bee in the bonnet of Susan’s antislavery activities that began in New York State, and a spur atop the saddle for Merritt and Daniel as they rode with the Kansas cavalry in the Civil War.
The Anthony story begins in Adams, Massachusetts at the family homestead and Friends’ Cemetery. That home represents a fairly stable period in the relationship between the Anthonys and the Quakers.
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