STATEMENT OF THE CASE

In the United States the movement’s most prominent leaders were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, both of whom had been ardent abolitionists before taking up the suffrage cause. Many women in the abolitionist movement felt slighted when Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870. ................
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