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In the 1850s, Ernestine Rose (1810-1892) was one of the most famous women in America — far better known than her co-workers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. An outstanding orator in an era when women seldom spoke publicly, Rose had “as great a power to chain an audience as any of our best male speakers,” a New York newspaper declared. She had an international reputation: “Her eloquence is irresistible. It shakes, it awes, it thrills, it melts — it fills you with horror, it drowns you with tears,” wrote a British sympathizer. “They who sat with her in bygone days on the platform will remember her matchless powers as a speaker,” Anthony reminisced in the 1880s, “and how safe we felt when she had the floor….” Her amazing life deserves to be restored to U.S. history.
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