RESISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL.

SMITH, Julia Evelina, 1792-1886; SMITH, Abby Hadassah; PROPERTY tax; RESISTANCE to government; HISTORY of women's rights; WOMEN'S rights; SISTERS; LOCAL taxation; U.S. states; NINETEENTH century

GLASTONBURY (Conn.); UNITED StatesReport Available

The article discusses the American sisters Julia Evelina Smith and Abby Hadassah Smith who became tax resisters in 1869 when they objected to a request to pay municipal property assessments on their 30-acre farm in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and it mentions a women's rights movement in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. Sexism in property taxation is examined, along with the town's seizure and auction the Smith family's land and the Connecticut Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the Smiths.