By Allison L. Sneider
In 1899, Carrie Chapman Catt, who succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the nationwide American ladies Suffrage organization, argued that it used to be the "duty" of U.S. ladies to aid carry the population of its new island possessions up from "barbarism" to "civilization," a venture that might most likely exhibit the ability of U.S. ladies for complete citizenship and political rights. Catt, like many suffragists in her day, was once well-versed within the language of empire, and infused the reason for suffrage with imperialist zeal in public debate.Unlike their predecessors, who have been operating for votes for girls in the context of slavery and abolition, the following iteration of suffragists argued their case opposed to the backdrop of the U.S. expansionism into Indian and Mormon territory at domestic in addition to in another country within the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. during this ebook, Allison L. Sneider conscientiously examines those simultaneous political movements--woman suffrage and American imperialism--as inextricably intertwined phenomena, instructively complicating the histories of either.
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Protection the economy of Santo Domingo would blossom, drawing laborers from the surrounding islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico. 55 It was hoped that Brazil, another site of slavery in the Americas, would soon follow suit. S. South, easing American racial tensions. 57 The initial public responses to Grant’s treaties were, however, mixed. S. presence in the Caribbean. 59 In 1870, much of Cuba was engaged in an anticolonial insurgency against Spain that sought emancipation for Cuba’s slave population in addition to national independence.
Borders. Examining this early moment, however, makes it possible to isolate how suffragists began to seize the opportunities presented by national debates over the government of federal territory to raise the woman question in Congress. 7 The veteran woman suffrage activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood at one end of the committee room’s long center table; the Republican senator Charles Sumner, the renowned advocate of freedmen’s civil and political rights, sat at the room’s opposite end. C. provided the first congressional forum for woman’s rights activists to make their case for 22 RECONSTRUCTION AND ANNEXATION women’s ballots since the end of the Civil War.
S. 1 Located just southeast of Cuba, on the eastern half of Hispaniola—an island it shared with the free black republic of Haiti—Santo Domingo was only six or seven days by ship from the harbor of New York. Santo Domingo had been a center of Spanish imperialism in the Caribbean since Columbus first established the colony of Isabella on its northern coast in 1493. S. borders, Sumner viewed the president’s plan to annex Santo Domingo’s Creole population of mixed Spanish and African descent as potentially disastrous for the Dominicans and their Haitian neighbors.
