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Women, she insisted, should not “stand aside and see Sambo walk into the kingdom first.” Black men were every bit as sexist as white, she argued, and once enfranchised would be “an added power to hold us at bay.”
Adam Shields
Seems clear that white women like Stanton may have had common cause but not a realopposition to racism
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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