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Woodhull “woman’s rights were inseparable from Spiritualism.” 12Spiritualism, communion with the spirits of the dead, empoweredthe seminal women’s movement. Leaders of the women’s movementoften communed with spirits, among the feminist icons that did sowere Isabella Beecher Hooker and Victoria Woodhull, the firstfemale presidential candidate. 13 Mary Ann McClintock and AmyPost, signers of the Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, NewYork in 1848, also practiced spiritualism. And, according toGoldsmith, at the funeral for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “At the headof her coffin was placed the mahogany McClintock Spirit Table,recalling the time when the woman’s movement had begun.” 14It was at the mahogany tea table in the home of Mary Ann12Barbara Goldsmith, Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism,and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,Inc., 1998), xi.13Ibid., 314.14Ibid., 435.39