Editing Elizabeth Cady Stanton (section)

==Childhood and family background==
Elizabeth Cady was born into the leading family of [[Johnstown (city), New York|Johnstown]], New York. Their family mansion on the town's main square was handled by as many as twelve servants. Her conservative father, [[Daniel Cady]], was one of the richest landowners in the state. A member of the [[Federalist Party]], he was an attorney who served one term in the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] and became a justice in the [[New York Supreme Court]].<ref>Griffith, pp. 3–5</ref>

Her mother, Margaret Cady ({{nee}} Livingston), was more progressive, supporting the radical [[William Lloyd Garrison|Garrisonian]] wing of the [[abolitionism|abolitionist movement]] and signing a petition for women's suffrage in 1867. She was described, at least earlier in her life, as "[n]early six feet tall, strong willed and self-reliant, ... She was the only person in the household not in awe of her husband who was 12 years her senior."<ref>Ginzberg, p. 19</ref>

Elizabeth was the seventh of eleven children, six of whom died before reaching full adulthood, including all of the boys. Her mother, exhausted by giving birth to so many children and the anguish of seeing so many of them die, became withdrawn and depressed. Tryphena, the oldest daughter, together with her husband Edward Bayard, assumed much of the responsibility for raising the younger children.<ref>Griffith, pp. 5–7</ref>

In her memoir, ''Eighty Years & More'', Stanton said there were three African-American manservants in her household when she was young. Researchers have determined that one of them, Peter Teabout, was a slave and probably remained so until all enslaved people in New York state were freed on July 4, 1827. Stanton recalled him fondly, saying that she and her sisters attended the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] church with Teabout and sat with him in the back of the church rather than in front with the white families.<ref>Stanton, ''Eighty Years & More'', [https://archive.org/details/eightyyearsandm00stangoog/page/n19/mode/2up pp. 5, 14–17]</ref><ref>Ginzberg, pp. 20–21</ref>