Elizabeth Cady Stanton On Women's Suffrage

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a women’s rights advocate, was the first person to publicly shine a light on the controversy of women’s suffrage. At that time, the Civil War was also taking place; many of the same people who advocated for women’s rights happened to advocate for abolishing slavery. The parallelled movements eventually created the Equal Rights Association. However, as the war further progressed, people believed that abolishing slavery was a more important goal to fulfill than working on women’s rights and were told that, “This is the Negroes’ hour.”
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment being ratified were the results of the separation. The Thirteenth Amendment put an end to slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment ensured that