Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist with her husband Henry Brewster Stanton (co-founder of the Republican Party) and cousin Gerrit Smith.
Antes de que Stanton reducise o seu enfoque político case exclusivamente aos dereitos da muller, foi unha activa abolicionista, xunto co seu esposo, Henry Brewster Stanton e o seu primo, Gerrit Smith.