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What were the causes and effects of intersectional discrimination?
Cause: The combination of race and gender discrimination. Effect: Unique challenges faced by Black women in the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
Significance of Black Oratory:
A powerful means of challenging oppression, advocating for change, and inspiring future generations.
Define mutual-aid societies.
Organizations formed in free Black communities to provide financial support for schools, businesses, and churches.
Define intersectionality.
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, creating overlapping systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Define abolitionism.
A movement to end slavery.
Define political manifesto.
A public declaration of policy and aims, especially one issued before an election by a political party or movement.
Define women's suffrage.
The right of women to vote in elections.