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== Shirley Yee, “Free Black Women in the Abolitionist Movement,” in ''Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860'', (1992). == | == Shirley Yee, “Free Black Women in the Abolitionist Movement,” in ''Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860'', (1992). == | ||
| + | Yee makes the point that black female abolitionists faced three different kinds of hostility and discrimination - anti-black, anti-abolitionist and the discomfort with "public" women. She later discusses some of these orators overcoming some of the hostility directed at them for being female speakers by giving off a sense of femininity. It's strange to think about, but it's a real possibility that some of these abolitionist women made the effort to come off distinctly feminine, "gentle," in order to not offend people for long enough to get their statement out. - erin b | ||
