This 1859 petition sought to revolutionize the status of women in the future state of Kansas by requesting that the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention of Kansas Territory grant women the “Legal and Constitutional guarantees enjoyed by any class of citizens.” While the document does not outline individual rights sought by the petitioners, its broad demand for legal equality was well ahead of its time and corresponded with the radical abolitionist movement in Kansas. One of the most prominent signatories of the petition was Charles Robinson, a Free-State Party leader who by this time had been appointed territorial governor by the (legally unrecognized) Topeka legislature and arrested for treason, only to be released several months later.