“Abolition & Suffrage”
“Many Garrisonians, including a large number of Quakers, refused to participate in electoral politics due to the government’s support of slavery and the U.S. war against Mexico. Garrisonian women did not necessarily oppose woman suffrage, but they emphasized instead the right of women to gain equal access to education and employment; equality within marriage, the family, and religion; and a married woman’s right to property, wages, control over her own body, and custody of her children. They advocated similar rights for African Americans and focused particularly on the sexual abuse of slave women as one of the strongest arguments for eradicating slavery.”
Everything was more complicated than the way I learned it in school, all of the time. I am excited for Hillary Clinton to potentially run in 2016 but I am terrified of the conversations I might be cornered into about how Black people got their turn with Barack Obama and now it’s the womens’ turn and we are done with racism and now it’s time to fight sexism.
(credit to KM)
