I opened up my eyes for the first time on February 15, 1820 to see my beautiful mother and father, Daniel and Lucy Anthony. I was born into a Quaker family. I read the newspaper one day to see that African Americans were being treated differently than us whites. This was the moment when I knew something was wrong and I wanted to do something about it. When I turned the age 17, I collected anti-slavery petitions. Later on, I moved to New York to become a NY state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Around this time I met my best friend and co-worker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Together we founded the Women’s National League. Women still did not have any freedom to do anything. That’s when Elizabeth and I initiated the American Equal Rights
