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Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

Amelia Bloomer

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Amelia Bloomer
Age: 76 †
Born: 1818
Born: May 27
Died: 1894
Died: December 30
Feminist
Journalist
Suffragette
Homer
New York
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Falsehood
Equality
Doctrine
Although
Standing
Concerned
Race
Proclaimed
Woman
Innate

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