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Fighting Chance - The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America (Hardcover)
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Fighting Chance - The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America (Hardcover)
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The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter
falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady
Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right
to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied,
come to this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal,
deception, and personal conflict, Fighting Chance offers fresh
answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the only
cause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money and
political maneuver. Historian Faye Dudden shows that Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony, believing they had a fighting chance to win woman
suffrage after the Civil War, tried but failed to exploit windows
of political opportunity, especially in Kansas. When they became
most desperate, they succeeded only in selling out their long-held
commitment to black rights and their invaluable friendship and
alliance with Frederick Douglass. Based on extensive research,
Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women's history and to
19th-century political history.
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