In ________, women had first formulated their demand for the…
In ________, women had first formulated their demand for the right to vote in the Declaration of Sentiments at a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, and saw their first opportunity of securing suffrage during Reconstruction when legislators—driven by racial animosity—sought to enfranchise women to counter the votes of Black men following the 1870 ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment.
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