When the fourteenth amendment was ratified were women and slaves considered to be citizens of the united states?
Women took the ball and ran with it. They might have been accused of misconstruing the law but that loophole meant a lot to the “Slave of the Needle”, the white woman whose numbers were greater than those of white men, meaning that many women would remain single for a lifetime, living in poverty. Yes, they were underprivileged citizens of the U.S. Adora Mitchell Bayles – Author.
