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[Suffrage] [Feminism] Claflin, Tennie C. Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman; A Consideration of the Various Relations which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; With Her Duties to Herself - Together with a Review of the Constitution of the United States, Showing that the Right to Vote is Guaranteed to All Citizens. Also a Review of the Rights of Children. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1871. First edition. 148 pages. 8vo. Original maroon boards with abbreviated title stamped in gilt on front, spine rebound. Tennessee Celeste Claflin was an American businesswoman and outspoken feminist known for her work in the American suffrage movement and for opening the first female owned Wall Street brokerage firm with her sister Victoria Woodhull in 1870. Claflin and Woodhull became an overnight success in the financial sector by catering to independently wealthy women and used their funds to open a publishing house which printed the radical newspaper…

Constitutional Equality: A Right of Woman is an influential book advocating for women's rights and gender equality.