Anthonys father Daniel was a cotton manufacturer and abolitionist, a stern but open-minded man who was born into the Quakerreligion. He did not allow toys or amusements into the household, claiming that they would distract the soul from the inner light. Her mother, Lucy, was a student in Daniels school; the two fell in love and agreed to marry in 1817, but Lucy was less sure about marrying into the Society of Friends . Lucy attended the Rochester womens rights convention held in August 1848, two weeks after the historic Seneca Falls Convention, and signed the Rochester conventions Declaration of Sentiments. Lucy and Daniel Anthony enforced self-discipline, principled convictions, and belief in ones own self-worth.
Susan was a precocious child, having learned to read and write at age three. In 1826, when she was six years old, the Anthony family moved from Massachusetts to Battenville, New York. Susan was sent to attend a local district school, where a teacher refused to teach her long division because of her gender. Upon learning of the weak education she was receiving, her father promptly had her placed in a group home school, where he taught Susan himself. Mary Perkins, another teacher there, conveyed a progressive image of womanhood to Anthony, further fostering her growing belief in womens equality.
In 1837, Anthony was sent to Deborah Moulsons Female Seminary, a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia. She was not happy at Moulsons, but she did not have to stay there long. She was forced to end her formal studies because her family, like many others, was financially ruined during the Panic of 1837. Their losses were so great that they attempted to sell everything in an auction, even their most personal belongings, which were saved at the last minute when Susans uncle, Joshua Read, stepped up and bid for them in order to restore them to the family.
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