Quotation by Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas

Southern women are ... all at heart abolitionists.
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, U.S. diarist. As quoted in Divided Houses, ch. 1, by Leeann Whites (1992).

In a journal entry dated January 2, 1858, referring to women of the "planter class," who chafed at their husbands' flagrant sex with slave women.
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