Stanton in particular has been fully and frequently established as a looming figure of racism in US feminisms past.2 In a recent collection of essays on her work, historian Ann D. Gordon points out that the "luster" of the infamous cofounder of the nineteenth-century womens rights movement has been "dimming" in recent years because of the "close scrutiny" now given to the racialized rhetoric in her speeches and writing ("Stanton" 111). Published from 1868 to 1870 in New York under the editorial leadership of Stanton and Anthony, the newspaper is the source of some of the most frequently cited and denounced writings within suffrage historiography, yet scholars have generated very little work on the journal as a text.41 draw from this neglected body of suffragist work to call attention to the specific ways that racism functioned within white suffragist rhetoric to mediate the subject positions of white, middle-class women during Reconstruction.