The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America
by
Faye E. Dudden
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
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 because it granted the vote to black men but not to women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? Based on extensive...