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Britt Rusert is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture.
Many took part in other radical movements—including Free Love, which promoted women’s independence and an end to traditional marriage.
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