Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readJun 14, 2023

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Sure, a Quaker abolitionist who devoted her entire life to the betterment of Black lives, and who had much more progressive views than typical for the time about the integration of Black people into society was very clearly actually a raging racist. 🙄. That's why she and Frederick Douglas formed the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens.

The citations for the wiki are nearly all from published books. You've produced one sentence, taken out of context. Where's the rest of the "documented evidence?" I want to be a well educated person. Please, enlighten me where I might learn further about this because other than general acknowledgements that the Seneca Falls convention was made up only of white women (not exactly a surprise for the times), I wasn't able to find anything on this.

Yes, the history of women's rights has always focused primarily on gains for middle and upper-class white women, but you seem hell-bent on holding people from the 1800s to contemporary standards, rather than looking at what they did that was quite unusual and remarkable for the time. As a social scientist, I find that kind of black and white thinking pretty suspect.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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