"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, during a discussion of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the continued exclusion of women from the ballot, she had remarked that "when it was a question of race, she let the lesser question go. But the white women all go for sex, letting race occupy a minor position.'"
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Gerda Lerner, The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History’’ (1979)
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Frances Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.
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