A rare, Western, woman's suffrage newspaper...
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THE NEW NORTHWEST, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 24, 1882
* Women's Suffrage & equal rights
* Editor Abigail Scott Duniway - activist
* "Mother of Equal Suffrage in Oregon"
* Rare old Pacific Northwest publication
This was one of the most influential reform newspapers in the history of the Pacific Northwest and a landmark publication in the American women’s suffrage movement.
It was published from 1871 to 1887 by pioneering activist and editor Abigail Scott Duniway, advocating for women’s voting rights, expanded property rights for married women, labor reform, and broader social equality. Its motto, as printed in the dateline — “Free Speech, Free Press, Free People” — reflected its outspoken editorial style and reformist mission.
It emerged at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still developing politically and socially. Duniway had crossed the Oregon Trail in 1852 and became deeply committed to women’s rights after witnessing the legal and economic limitations imposed on frontier women. Through The New Northwest, she created one of the first sustained feminist voices in the western United States. It played a major role in organizing the Western suffrage movement. Duniway used it to promote lecture tours by prominent national activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians regard the paper as one of the earliest major catalysts for organized women’s rights activism in the Pacific Northwest.
Eight pages, some small edge tears along the right margin, otherwise in very nice condition.
Background: Published weekly in Portland, Oregon, from 1871 to 1887, The New Northwest is historically significant as the primary catalyst for the women's suffrage and equal rights movements in the Pacific Northwest. Founded, edited, and published by pioneering suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, the newspaper operated under the bold masthead "Free Speech, Free Press, Free People" and served as a vital communications hub that unified isolated Western activists, notably orchestrating Susan B. Anthony's historic 1871 tour of the region. Rather than focusing solely on the ballot, the publication fundamentally transformed the legal and economic landscape of the West by relentlessly exposing the financial vulnerabilities of frontier women. This advocacy was directly instrumental in the passage of the landmark Married Women's Property Act of 1878 in Oregon, which granted married women the right to own property and retain their own wages. Furthermore, the paper functioned as an essential cultural and literary outlet, serializing progressive novels that illustrated domestic inequalities, while simultaneously using its platform to defend the human rights of marginalized Native Americans and Chinese immigrants. Its legacy was defined not only by its progressive intersectionality but also by a fierce, public editorial war between Duniway and her brother, Harvey W. Scott—the anti-suffrage editor of The Oregonian—making The New Northwest a groundbreaking testament to independent, dissident journalism that laid the groundwork for Oregon ultimately securing women's right to vote in 1912.
* Women's Suffrage & equal rights
* Editor Abigail Scott Duniway - activist
* "Mother of Equal Suffrage in Oregon"
* Rare old Pacific Northwest publication
This was one of the most influential reform newspapers in the history of the Pacific Northwest and a landmark publication in the American women’s suffrage movement.
It was published from 1871 to 1887 by pioneering activist and editor Abigail Scott Duniway, advocating for women’s voting rights, expanded property rights for married women, labor reform, and broader social equality. Its motto, as printed in the dateline — “Free Speech, Free Press, Free People” — reflected its outspoken editorial style and reformist mission.
It emerged at a time when the Pacific Northwest was still developing politically and socially. Duniway had crossed the Oregon Trail in 1852 and became deeply committed to women’s rights after witnessing the legal and economic limitations imposed on frontier women. Through The New Northwest, she created one of the first sustained feminist voices in the western United States. It played a major role in organizing the Western suffrage movement. Duniway used it to promote lecture tours by prominent national activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Historians regard the paper as one of the earliest major catalysts for organized women’s rights activism in the Pacific Northwest.
Eight pages, some small edge tears along the right margin, otherwise in very nice condition.
Background: Published weekly in Portland, Oregon, from 1871 to 1887, The New Northwest is historically significant as the primary catalyst for the women's suffrage and equal rights movements in the Pacific Northwest. Founded, edited, and published by pioneering suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, the newspaper operated under the bold masthead "Free Speech, Free Press, Free People" and served as a vital communications hub that unified isolated Western activists, notably orchestrating Susan B. Anthony's historic 1871 tour of the region. Rather than focusing solely on the ballot, the publication fundamentally transformed the legal and economic landscape of the West by relentlessly exposing the financial vulnerabilities of frontier women. This advocacy was directly instrumental in the passage of the landmark Married Women's Property Act of 1878 in Oregon, which granted married women the right to own property and retain their own wages. Furthermore, the paper functioned as an essential cultural and literary outlet, serializing progressive novels that illustrated domestic inequalities, while simultaneously using its platform to defend the human rights of marginalized Native Americans and Chinese immigrants. Its legacy was defined not only by its progressive intersectionality but also by a fierce, public editorial war between Duniway and her brother, Harvey W. Scott—the anti-suffrage editor of The Oregonian—making The New Northwest a groundbreaking testament to independent, dissident journalism that laid the groundwork for Oregon ultimately securing women's right to vote in 1912.
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