Slavery, Suffrage and the American Civil War

As calls for women’s suffrage gained momentum following the American Civil War, an uncomfortable racial fault-line began to emerge within the movement, argues Jad Adams.

The cover of the programme for a procession of the National American Women's Suffrage Association, March 1913

‘The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history…’

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