Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society

Glossary

• Gibralter reference to the Rock of Gibraltar in the Strait of Gibraltar off the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), often used as a figure of speech for something “rock solid.”
• Marys and Marthas sisters to Mary, the mother of Christ, and followers of Jesus, mentioned in the gospels of Luke and John
• Pharisee member of a Jewish sect at the time of Jesus, often a symbol of self-righteousness
• Wendell Phillips American abolitionist
• “whatever is done unto one of the least of these …” a variation of a verse from the biblical book of Matthew, chapter 25, verse 40
• William Lloyd Garrison outspoken American abolitionist and publisher of the antislavery newspaper the Liberator