Program

National Votes for Women Trail

Location

9 Chestnut St, Salem, MA 01970, USA

Lat/Long

42.51974, -70.89932

Grant Recipient

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites

By 1826, John and Nancy Remond lived and worked at Hamilton Hall in Salem, Massachusetts. Members of the Remond family, including siblings Sarah Parker Remond and Charles Lenox Remond, advocated for equal rights and women’s suffrage. Both Sarah and Charles were lecturers, abolitionists, and social activists. They travelled around the country, advocating for equal rights and speaking out against slavery.

In May 1858, Sarah spoke at the National Woman’s Rights Convention held in Mozart Hall in New York City. The convention marked the eighth in a series of meetings at which both women and men reformers discussed and advocated for women’s rights and equal suffrage. Susan B. Anthony served as president of the 1858 National Woman’s Rights Convention. In addition to Sarah, speakers at the event included prominent reformers like Frederick Douglass, Frances D. Gage, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone, Sarah Grimke, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell.

The May 14, 1858 edition of the New York Morning Express reported on the proceedings of the National Woman’s Rights Convention. It noted that Sarah addressed the gathering, stating that it took “moral courage to stand up for the rights of women.” She discussed how through history “Women had given men their motive power, and the men took the credit of it afterwards.” In closing, she “wished the movement her hearty cooperation” upon which the Morning Express noted there was applause from those in attendance.