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'''I beleive this is the most important question asked in this essay:''' After the war, should the enfranchisement of black women, or of all women take place? This question is central to many of the political struggles in the late 19th century. Black women almost seperated themselves into a community to bond, which made overall suffrage more difficult. | '''I beleive this is the most important question asked in this essay:''' After the war, should the enfranchisement of black women, or of all women take place? This question is central to many of the political struggles in the late 19th century. Black women almost seperated themselves into a community to bond, which made overall suffrage more difficult. | ||
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| + | Going along with the previous point I'm not sure if the black female community had worked less towards creating a homogenous community that they would have had an easier time gaining suffrage. It seemed however that it was a necessity for these womens to create these communities in order to survive the difficulties of post slavery life in the Reconstruction Era.---Emma | ||
Going with the question of the enfranchisement of women... I really was encouraged by the fact that although the book explicitly states that Black men also felt that women were inferior to men in their social positions it was later stated that "serious discussion" regarding the suffrage of women was reliant upon the presence of black delegates in support of the woman's suffrage movement. -SSellers | Going with the question of the enfranchisement of women... I really was encouraged by the fact that although the book explicitly states that Black men also felt that women were inferior to men in their social positions it was later stated that "serious discussion" regarding the suffrage of women was reliant upon the presence of black delegates in support of the woman's suffrage movement. -SSellers | ||
