Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Black Suffrage, 1869

From Elizabeth Cady Stanton. "Women and Black Men," The Revolution. 4:(February 4, 1869). 64.

The proposed Amendment for "manhood suffrage" not only rouses woman's prejudices against the negro, but on the other hand his contempt and hostility toward her as an equal . . . .

Black men have been citizens in the District of Columbia two years. Have they made any move for the enfranchisement of women there? Nay, nay, they are at this moment more hostile to women than any class of men in the country.

Just as the democratic cry of a "white man's government" created the antagonism between the Irishmen and the negro which culminated in the New York riots of '63, so the republican cry of "manhood suffrage" creates an antagonism between black men and all women, that will culminate in fearful outrages on womanhood, especially in the southern states.