Protest and Propaganda by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780826274328
Publisher: University of Missouri Press

The old anti-slavery school say [sic] women must stand back and wait until the negroes shall be recognized. But we say, if you will not give the whole loaf of suffrage to the entire people give it to the most intelligent first. If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the Government, let the question of woman be brought up first and that of the negro last.10

Stanton argued that not another man should be enfranchised until enough women were admitted to the polls to outweigh those already there. She too made racist statements, claiming that she did not believe “in allowing ignorant negroes and foreigners to make laws for her to obey.”11 Paulina Davis also made racist statements in her argument for the priority of woman suffrage. The record of the AERA meeting reads,

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