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Speeches - By Date - 1851-1900

This speech collection is organized chronologically by year of speech delivery.


 

1851, May 28

 

Ain't I a Woman?

Speaker:
Sojourner Truth

Delivered at Akron, Ohio

     
     
     

1851, October 15

 

Clarina Howard Nichols - Speech

The Responsibilities of Woman

Speaker: Clarina Howard Nichols

Delivered at Worcester, Massachusetts

     
     
     

1851, October 15

 

Ernestine Rose - Speech

The Tender Ivy Plant

Speaker: Ernestine Rose

Delivered at Worcester, Massachusetts

     
     
     

1852, July 5

 

Frederick Douglass - Speech

The Hypocrisy of American Slavery (What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?)

Speaker: Frederick Douglass

Delivered at Rochester, New York

     
     
     

1852, August 26

 

Freedom National; Slavery Sectional - Charles Sumner

Freedom National; Slavery Sectional

Speaker: Charles Sumner

Delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

1853, June 1

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Speech

Temperance and Women's Rights

Speaker: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Delivered at Rochester, New York

     
     
     

1854, February 20

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Speech

The Rights of Married Women

Speaker: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Submitted at New York, N.Y.

     
     
     

1856, May 19

 

The Crime Against Kansas - Charles Sumner

The Crime Against Kansas

Speaker: Charles Sumner

Delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

1858, June 16

 

Abraham Lincoln - Speech

A House Divided

Speaker: Abraham Lincoln

Delivered at Springfield, Illinois

     
     
     

1859, November 2

 

John Brown - Speech

Final Speech

Speaker: John Brown

Delivered at Charles Town, Virginia

     
     
     

1860, February 27

 

Abraham Lincoln - Cooper Union Address 1860

Cooper Union Address

Speaker: Abraham Lincoln

Delivered at New York, NY

     
     
     

1860, November 8

 

Giuseppe Garibaldi - Speech

To Arms, All of You! - English

To Arms, All of You! - Italian

Speaker: Giuseppe Garibaldi

Delivered at Naples, Italy

     
     
     

1861, March 4

 

Abraham Lincoln - Speech

First Inaugural Address

Speaker: Abraham Lincoln

Delivered at Washington DC

     
     
     

1862, September 30

 

Otto von Bismarck - Speech

Blood and Iron - English

Blood and Iron - German

Speaker: Otto von Bismarck

Delivered at Berlin, Germany

     
     
     

1863, November 19

 

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg Address

Speaker: Abraham Lincoln

Delivered at Gettysburg, PA

     
     
     

1865, March 4

 

Second Inaugural Address

Speaker: Abraham Lincoln

Delivered in Washington D.C.

     
     
     

1866

 

Mark Twain - Votes for Women 1901

Our Fellow Savages

Speaker: Mark Twain

Delivered on Hawaii

     
     
     

1867, January

 

Frederick Douglass - Speech

An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

Speaker: Frederick Douglass

As published in the Atlantic Monthly

     
     
     

1867, May 9-10

 

Frances D. Gage - Speech

Address to the American Equal Rights Association

Speaker: Frances D. Gage

Delivered at New York, N.Y.

     
     
     

1868

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Speech

The Destructive Male

Speaker: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

1870, September 23

 

Eulogy of the Dog

Speaker: George Graham Vest

     
     
     

1871

 

Matilda Joslyn Gage - Speech

On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women

Speaker: Matilda Joslyn Gage

     
     
     

1872, April 3

 

Benjamin Disraeli - Speech

Sanitas Sanitatum, Omnia Sanitas

Speaker: Benjamin Disraeli

Delivered at Manchester, England

     
     
     

1873

 

Susan B. Anthony - Speech

On Women's Right to Vote

Speaker: Susan B. Anthony

Delivered in the state of New York

     
     
     

1874, April 25

 

Lucius Q.C. Lamar 1825-1893 "On Sumner and the South" delivered April 25, 1874

On Sumner and the South

Speaker: Lucius Q.C. Lamar

Delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

1877, October 5

 

Chief Joseph - Surrender Speech 1877

Surrender Speech

Speaker: Chief Joseph

Delivered at the Bear Paw Mountains, Montana Territory

     
     
     

1883, January 26

 

Theodore Roosevelt - 1883

The Duties of American Citizenship

Speaker: Theodore Roosevelt

Delivered at Buffalo, NY

     
     
     

1890, February 24

 

Matilda Joslyn Gage - Speech

Dangers of the Hour

Speaker: Matilda Joslyn Gage

     
     
     

1892

 

Jane Addams - Speech

The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements

Speaker: Jane Addams

Delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts

     
     
     

1892, January 18

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Speech

Solitude of Self

Speaker: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Delivered at Washington D.C.

     
     
     

1893, September 11-27

 

Vivekananda - Speech

Death Knell of Fanaticism

Speaker: Vivekananda

Delivered at Chicago, Illinois

     
     
     

1895, September 18

 

Booker T. Washington - Speech

Atlanta Compromise

Speaker:
Booker T. Washington

Delivered at Atlanta, Georgia

     
     
     

1896, June 24

 

Booker T. Washington - Speech

Harvard University Address

Speaker:
Booker T. Washington

Delivered at Boston, Massachusetts

     
     
     

1896, July 8

 

William Jennings Bryan - Speech

Cross of Gold

Speaker: William Jennings Bryan

Delivered at Chicago, Illinois

     
     
     

1896, September 30

 

Booker T. Washington - Speech

Democracy and Education

Speaker: Booker T. Washington

Delivered at Brooklyn, New York

     
     
     

1899, April 10

 

The Strenuous Life

Speaker: Theodore Roosevelt

Delivered at Chicago, Illinois

     
     
     

1900

 

Acres of Diamonds

Speaker: Russell Conwell

Delivered at Philadelphia, PA

     
     
     


 

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