![]() ![]() Anthony) opposed Black suffrage based on the belief that emancipation had made Black men equal to white women and that suffrage for Black men would therefore put them a step above white women. ![]() ![]() She cites a letter written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton from December 1865 expressing several racist ideas and arguments in particular, it illuminates her concern that Black men will progress further than white women and her corresponding unwillingness to support Black men’s enfranchisement if women could not get the same. Davis identifies this rising influence of racism during and immediately after the Civil War period. Davis expands on a key shortcoming of the growing suffrage movement: racism and its powerful hold on even the movement’s most progressive leaders. ![]()
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