A speech around the quiltSourced
An early women's-rights speech
at a quilting gathering.
Nineteenth-century quilting bees in the United States doubled as places to talk and debate. As a teenager, Susan B. Anthony gave some of her first speeches for women's rights at such gatherings.
A sewing circle
became a speaking platform.
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