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The speakers were the primary attractions at women's suffrage events. In Mary A. Livermore's speech at the New England Women's Tea Party, she said that she would be surprised at the size of the crowd except for the prominent advertising of Wendell Phillips as a speaker.
The broadside advertises primarily orators. Oration was a primary mode of persuasion during this period, and particularly noteworthy orators could be the difference between a successful event and a failed one. Though he appeared at the event, Frederick Douglass is not included in the advertisement. Bronson Alcott is the father of treasured author Louisa May Alcott of Little Women fame, and was a prominent in the transcendental movement.
