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Title: Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Scruggs, L. A. (Lawson Andrew), 1857-1914
Subjects: North Caroliniana African American women African Americans Women
Publisher: Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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s the mother of one child, a boy oftwelve \ears. To say that Victoria Earle has alreadysucceeded and stands shoulder to shoulder with most ofher white sisters is only to tell a part of the truth. Sheindeed has but few equals, and when chances or oppor-tunities and environments are compared, she may safelybe said to be the peer of her more favored sisters.- She stands as a living example to the very large num-ber of our young women who are so well acquaintedwith the trials and discouragements of a dependent life;and still more an example is she because by energy^courage and self-reliance she has steadily developed froma slave-horn child of dependence to a zvoman of nationalcharacter with recognised worth and ability. The worldhas truly felt her impress. She is in demand wherevershe is known and is honored by the intelligent of allclasses whose fortune it is to become acquainted withher noble womanly and scholarly qualities. The excellence of her writings is simply grand andencouraging.
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IDA B. WELLS. WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. CHAPTER VII. IDA B. WELLS, A. M. One of the marvels of modern society is the lionorableposition which woman has secnred in the affairs of man-kind. She is no longer a cipher; she is a positive force.Regnant in the home, a co-ordinate force in the move-ments which make for human happiness, she must reckonin every accurate estimate of contention or achiev^ement.In what manner she has arisen from the thralldom ofancient times is answered by the grasp which Chris-tianity has secured upon a large portion of mankind.Onl) in Christian countries has woman secured a meas-ure of equality with the forceful agents that make theworlds history. In pagan countries she is still the idolof the harem or the beast of burden for the peasant. It is a notable fact that in the anti-slavery strugglewomen contribited almost as largely as men to the mould-ing of public* opinion necessary to the manumission ofthe slave. Women such as Lucretia Mott, HarrietBeecher Stowe, Sojou

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