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Radical Women 1832–1869
The American suffrage movement was an outgrowth of antislavery activism. Women abolitionists had begun abandoning domestic tradition and asserting their opinions in public when they fought against slavery. Suffrage, however, did not become a central issue in the women's movement until after the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments in 1868 and 1870, which granted citizenship to all born in the United States and enfranchised African American men, respectively. |