up
high enough to see if
the
bet that a great question on
you know that of my work on
centers of black American women
on in the
year is on around me off to the
falls meeting on and
one of the things we know about
that meeting is fed on there
certainly no black women who
participate in the formal
proceedings 
, what are the questions and I
began to ask and my research was
and why leave black women march
in July and 1848 of the Seneca f
unfold for a few months before
the Seneca falls meeting in and
the city of Philadelphia where
the African Methodist Episcopal
ch
and then only will present for
that meeting I had come
organized up with a petition
june and was an objective which
was to win t
on know I think sometimes women
tell that story
that sounds as if it's very far
from the ideas that are
animating trickle falls that of
course when you look across the
whole of
on were also united on around
the demand for a twinge
authority with and churches with
NO 3 communities, and so on
if we want to tell up a bigger
story of a tool or even a more
complete story, and for me about
that scene in Philadelphia and A
to the story of the folks
together into a nickel falls
later that summer
it really use of an ongoing and
dialogue kitchen window and
black women really that never
found quite give up a few real
and str
religious authority of around
leadership and intelligent the
nation's foes continue until
today cap on but your rights to
sugges
slavery on organizing and
African American women alone
will be among the first of the
women's and into slavery
societies to be f
on duty for a brief convention
and on and so antislavery is
another place in which black and
white women of our testing new
idea
what it's like two on the cries
sexism on making the midst of on
milliyet of very serious, and
very impassioned politics above
t
along service by the aging
thirties is B a long series of
local state and national
gatherings of black Americans
when a team tha
but wholly but nearly completely
you are excluded from political
parties and from oven and state
politics and they create their 
and speak about their rights on
the present and expect to stick
to the podium and contribute
their ideas that want to be a
sheet
forthrightly the kind of ideas
but also with animated and the
Munich Seneca falls surfacing in
African American politics black
w
scout and two but they will very
much on also find on a good that
pushed back in a position on
buddy and the color convention
an
use where we CI think that of
the publishing of VR on a more
expressly political on voting
rights, demand for black women
that I was mentioning two before
we began by Jan I came last
summer and to Seneca falls on
think including to the national
Parks
good but I was looking at it in
the sense for the African
American women who lived at the
end and make their homes and
their fam
on members of the Wesleyan
Methodist chapel where are the
meeting is held on the tote up
year in the records as having
been prac
the vote short walking distance
of the chapel and shortly would
have known there was a meeting
going on it was noticed the
paper
a passion is not too and
as client on
purpose to serve the cause and
had where we have no evidence
for it but I think much like you
and I find the actions of the
blac
the guts to most provocative and
absence of all
had their
enough
to live in Vanguard and I've
read about and three women of
Sharon James brushing them the
right and at the Khobar and I
hope I'm
are lived in Seneca falls on in
those same years on as a shed
two of who work on members of
the auto Wesleyan Methodist
chapel
on the surging share the houses
of worship which Elizabeth cady
Stanton men in faxed it will
either write about a beagle art
in 
on which to let mark a pond
where Abby was up on the days of
E on about a full meeting on the
cell when it came to Seneca
falls 
on and to understand and women
into that place Seneca falls was
in those years and it is
difficult for me when mentioned
that th
date on African American women
die on
are on very clear that the two
of active eight politically and
as the war
began in and sit on their those
library and check your carry out
of who returns home after having
been in exile in Canada she wi
on and many more black women
well on activate their local ad
networks and on endeavour's
around that level of work and
reflect t
arriving in the in Washington,
DC and two barns and formally
inflamed people without taking
their freon on that and are
refugees
support the flow to Washington
and Virginia and it is a time
when and
black the work that black women
have been doing
for very long time in their
local communities becomes
expressly
politicized because for black
Americans the war is
unquestionably a war on bond to
abolish slavery cup of them and
so on in my v
some of whom had been part of
the NT states Lavery lectures
seen others of who had been on
the part of the color
conventions tha
on around on the leaf work on
and of course on very soon
free women are going to be
migrating to places like the sea
islands on no building new kinds
of communities on alongside four
bi
and with the war's end of course
we have the arm profound
questions about
who would insulate people for
slaves on: free black people
also will be on before the
nation as part of the body type
politick b
on is a profound one from all
black Americans, including are
included black women
can
back on
an
black Americans in the many
decades before the Civil War and
reconstruction Levine AB:
constitutional limbo
on
all are the faces of the United
States feature free peoples,
aboard free others of an
anticipated on and a living
history people
might be attached to the
possibility that they are
citizens and on black activists
on including those in the color
convention mo
early on all on right thing by
early anybody 1820s cap on are
becoming fixed on the idea that
the way to win rights is to
begin 
U.S. constitution is
largely silent about who was a
cities and how one becomes a
citizen what kinds of brights
editions have passed on to a
black Ame
the view that in the U.S. births
makes one issue to send a
birthright citizenship on and
that there are fundamental
rights on th
and on for some on the claim of
it is still uncontested one of
bets on political rights voting
rights should attend citizenship
those fundamental
provisions like birthright
citizenship were hard fought on
foreign Howard one on the phone
with black Americans on part of
the r
if you do well that we continue
to live with the inning off and
by date to date on as Americans
onto the constitution that will 
now speaking directly to voting
rights on and it will prohibit
the individual states from using
race as a criteria or a banner y
on bids on
not only this move by Congress
and by the troubles this cold of
alliance between women's rights
advocates in and antislavery adv
is an incomplete at best on
intervention out on for African
American men on the tiff hoped
that the 15th amendment will go
some 
on they need a 15th amendment
also if they're called 0.2 on
have any prospect of getting to
the polls on but as we know and
for 
on because it does not say race
and sex on and it is the
beginning
of the marks the beginning of a
new
on movement for women's suffrage
conversion of on the suffrage
association and zap on these are
associations that African Americ
my claim on to women's political
rights that will take us all the
way to the 19th amendment
obsolete
to
on committed to a second about
it on the first system and if
you will ask black women on and
there are black women in the
Americ
a one of them is spread to
selling weapons harper and
politics into slavery lecturer
on PLU and has on worked on the
early recon
and she speaks quite forcefully
both too if you will
Frederick Douglass and two
Elizabeth off and on and what
she says it in a beautiful lime
juice apologies and we're all
bound up 
Parker urges is that these
polish and not compromise may
not compromise on its principles
and not compromise black women
on who 
on-target and use that term
which he said we are just a bug
on well what it meant so harper
is there and on her interest is
in
getting black women's
perspectives on the agenda and
on to the holy but she's merely
quite a long ride neither don't
listen or s
or on both of them endanger the
women on who would ask for Jews
and who would on
and seek to divvy up her
political identity harper is not
have been cut back the same
turned with everybody in these
meetings is
on and what I mean by that is on
the committee which
politics of Congress on the pop
politics to constitutional
amendments out of our cheaply
inflected access to Cheryl
invites me a
on and there are those for whom
the compromise that comes out of
Congress on is on untenable and
on their others who were prepar
who will join on the - beyond
the new suffrage association
and on and continue to do the
work of women's suffrage going
to fall word on so on france's
harper in my view is is is what
most
an updated for the logging on
and on shoes, and take a partial
victory inches, continuing to do
the work of advocating for women
and
doubt
on I think he S. Bennett the
same time on the hill for
African American women as we've
already on explored that
politics happens
command that experience of the
1860s aware they do in back to
their churches and now they
hobbled long list of them pans
on that
and what 1000 but millions of
black Americans on after
slavery's abolition the search
institutions that are no
ongoing two on bill themselves
in and fill out the American
south on and so black women come
back and two black Methodist
church
