Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial
Beecher, between 1855 and 1865
A daguerreotype of Beecher as a young man
Plymouth Church in 1866
Henry Ward Beecher, ca. 1861–1897, from the Louis Prang & Company Collection of the Boston Public Library
Victoria Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historian
Henry Ward Beecher
…public after Theodore told Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others of his wife's confession. Stanton repeated the story to fellow women's rights leaders Victoria Woodhull and Isabella Beecher Hooker. Henry Ward Beecher had publicly denounced Woodhull's advocacy of free love. Seeing a chance to make his hypocrisy known…
Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1870
"Get thee behind me, (Mrs.) Satan!" 1872 caricature by Thomas Nast: Wife, carrying a heavy burden of children and drunk husband, admonishing (Mrs.) Satan (Victoria Woodhull), "I'd rather travel the hardest path of matrimony than follow your footsteps." Mrs. Satan's sign reads, "Be saved by free love."
Norton Park, Bredon's Norton
Cabinet card portrait photograph, circa 1870