"A shame on such laws! a SHAME on such men."
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AbolitionistsFeminists from the United StatesWomen's rights activistsNative Americans' rights activistsActivists from New York (state)
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was a 19th-century women's suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression."
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