Study the excerpt from an 1873 speech given by Susan B. Anthony.The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.
This is a primary source because it is an excerpt from a speech Susan B. Anthony gave in 1873. A primary source comes directly from someone who took part in or witnessed the events and ideas being studied. The excerpt shows Anthony’s own argument about women’s citizenship and rights, rather than a later account describing her views.
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