You should tell your roommate to read a book. First wave feminism started quite a few years before slaves were freed.
They didn't have the right to vote and mud races gaining legal status while they were denied that right would piss a woman off.
That may be true, but hasn't got a damned thing to do with the subject as written. The feminist movement predated the end of slavery by something like 20 years.
Your female roommate should read a damned history book before making bold proclamations.
Alternatively, you could sanity check her statements before posting them online as though they're grand revelations. That's entirely up to you, of course.
You are implying every woman in America was behind the movement 20 years before this. Her argument is that this really got them motivated seeing former property have rights they didn't. But because she is technically wrong there must be no merit in her argument right?
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