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Who was & wasn't thereWe know Seneca Falls had a mixed-sex audience, which was still rare. Susan B Anthony wasn't there: she didn’t join the movement until a few years…
The New Departure - Mary Ann Shadd Cary & Frederick DouglassIn the spring of 1871, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass led at least 63 Black & white women to attempt to register to vote in Washington…
The most significant manI’m chasing down a citation, so you’ll have to wait to hear from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, one of few Black women on the record in these debates.…
The FreemanMary Ann Shadd Cary edited The Freeman in Canada. She moved there in 1850s to protest Fugitive Slave Act. Post-Civil War she returned & entered Howard…
StatuesIn NYC we have statues of two great suffragists. They've been standing watch over neighborhood protests these weeks. 👈Frederick Douglass at…
Power concedes nothingWisdom from a great leader (and suffragist): "If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate…
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, part III am particularly fond of Josephine St Pierre Ruffin because she was an avid defender of Ida B Wells. Josephine moved among society women both white…
FD Defends the Constitution“The American Government and the American Constitution are spoken of in a manner which would naturally lead the hearer to believe that the one is…
Charles Lenox RemondCharles Lenox Remond was the most prominent Black abolitionist in the US until he was overshadowed by Frederick Douglass. Remond’s commitment to…
Cady Stanton, as seen todayElizabeth Cady Stanton. Sheesh. In 13+ months of daily posts, I've talked around her, rarely about her. Why? “One of the most brilliant thinkers in…