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Birth Control Advocate
Mill and a friend were arrested for distributing pamphlets on birth control to women in working class areas. -
"The Negro Question"
Mill sent an anonymous letter in rebuttle to Thomas Carlyle's anonymous letter in which Carlyle argued in favor of slavery. Mill supported the eradication of slavery in the United States. -
"On Liberty"
Mill adresses the nature and limits of the power that can be lawfully exercised by society over an individual. It is noted that Mill's arguments in "On Liberty" are based on the principle of utility and not natural rights. -
Women's rights
Mills became the first person in the history of parliament to demand that women have the right to vote.
