post-Election Day, 2020

Title

post-Election Day, 2020

Description

I try to imagine what it felt like to have no vote. Not an insignificant vote, not a challenged vote, not a gerrymandered vote. No vote.

To imagine how it felt to be a woman or an enslaved person in 1856, during a three-way race among pro-slavery Democrat James Buchanan, anti-slavery Republican John Frémont, and Know Nothing party candidate President Millard Fillmore.

Or in 1860, when moderate Republican Abraham Lincoln ran against three different pro-slavery candidates. Or in the excruciatingly close and bitter election of 1876, which ended Reconstruction.

Women like Anna Dickinson and Sojourner Truth and Ernestine Rose and Mary Ann Shadd Cary - I study them to understand how they used their rage. How did they make it productive? How did they stay focused on changing the structure of power, when that structure rejected their existence? Why didn’t they give up? Why didn’t they use violence? That’s all I got right now.

#suffrage100 

Creator

Daily Suffragist

Date

Nov 04, 2020

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Citation

Daily Suffragist, “post-Election Day, 2020,” Daily Suffragist, accessed March 29, 2024, https://dailysuffragist.omeka.net/items/show/536.

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