Similarities Between Elizabeth Cady And Susan B Anthony

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'Both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were abolitionists who spent the Civil War years pressing for full emancipation of all slaves, speaking out before hostile white mobs, collecting signatures on petitions, campaigning and lobbying. But they had assumed, perhaps naively, that women would get the vote at the same time as African American men. When that didn't happen, they turned on old friends and allied themselves with a racist benefactor, arguing for woman suffrage by comapring educated white women like themselves to semiliterate black men who were getting the ballot first. It was a bitter dark period during which Stanton shocked her friend Frederick Douglass with her denunciation of "Patrick and Sambo and Yung Tung. . . . making