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Declaring his unqualified support of women’s rights, Weld urged the sisters to put the antislavery cause first Any women could defend women’s rights, he insisted. As southerners, they were needed and in a powerful position to speak for the slave.
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Sklar, K.K. (2000). Theodore Weld. In: Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement, 1830–1870. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04527-0_27
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