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Should be written anything but that. Add a “that” after the “but”.

Oof. What a strong example of how dangerous “white” feminism lacking intersectionality  can be. How the same activist who was championing equal rights for all so quickly used racist manipulative tactics to try to get the vote.

[Stanton captured the radical spirit of the hour: “now in the reconstruction,” she declared, “is the opportunity, perhaps for the century, to base our government on the broad principle of equal rights for all.” ((Proceedings of the Eleventh National Women’s Rights Convention, Held at the Church of the Puritans, New York, May 10, 1866 (New York: Johnston, 1866).)) Stanton chose her universal language—“equal rights for all”—with intention, setting an agenda of universal suffrage.]

I think a lot about the fact that black women in the south did not really have the right to vote until 1965….

THIS was the 40 acres and a mule that was promised and then never followed through on. Correct?

How did reconstruction ending return the white democrats to power? I am trying to understand how we went from having over 2000 black men in positions of power to only a handful? I tried posting this already so hopefully this doesn’t show up as a duplicate question.

This is such a powerful image. The tools in the man who is casting his vote’s pocket make me wonder if he left work in a hurry to make sure he was able to make his vote count. I am grateful that Waud captured these men with dignity.

This paragraph and specifically this sentence has me rethinking the cotton picking map we saw in our lecture. The limited mobility probably had a lot to do with these vagrancy laws. (Also I am assuming the exploitative farming contracts referred to here is sharecropping)

And this right here is how slavery never really ended. Chain gangs immediately spring to mind.

So in other words those who pledged loyalty to the Union were allowed to continue to enslave people?

Too long, please make a summary for people who dont have 8 years to listen to you yap pointlessly. Thanks