Mrs. Satan's sign: "Be saved by free love." In the background, a woman with children and drunk husband, says to this depiction of Victoria Woodhull, "I'd rather travel the hardest path of matrimony than follow your footsteps."
Original title of this cartoon skewering Victoria Woodhull: "Get thee behind me, (Mrs.) Satan!"
Victoria Woodhull depicted as Mrs. Satan by cartoonist Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, February 17, 1872.
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Victoria WoodhullHarriet Beecher StoweElizabeth Cady Stanton
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