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1913 · Washington
by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor; Tillman, Benjamin R. [Presenter]
Washington: Committee on Printing, 1913. Other. Octavo; 16 pages; G-; rusting to staples, age toning to pages, chipping along edges, bending and creasing to corners; RW; Shelved Room A. Bledsoe originally delivered this essay as an annual address before the Lee and Jackson Literary Society of the Wesleyan Female College at Staunton, Virginia on June 14, 1871. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina reprinted Bledsoe's "The Mission of Woman" in July 1913 during his opposition to the women's suffrage movement. When several senators objected that the views expressed in Bledsoe's article were insulting to women they were expunged from the Congressional Record. 1357836. Special Collections. (Inventory #: 1357836)