"You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs... Justice is not fulfilled so long as woman is unequal before the law. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul." — Frances E. W. Harper, "We Are All Bound Up Together," 1866
Harper's intersectional argument anticipated debates within the women's movement that:
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Resulted in the founding of the Republican Party
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Produced the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
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Split the suffrage movement after the Fifteenth Amendment over race versus sex priority
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Led to the immediate enfranchisement of Black women in 1870
Explanation
Harper's critique foreshadowed the 1869 split between Stanton/Anthony's NWSA (opposing the Fifteenth Amendment without women's suffrage) and Stone's AWSA (supporting it as a step forward).