We have been told, to-day, that it was a woman that agitated Great Britain to its very centre, before emancipation could be effected in her colonies. Woman must go hand in hand with man in every great and noble cause, if success would be insured.

— Ernestine Rose Speech at the Anniversary of West Indian Emancipation (1853)

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