this one asks, says frances harper faced off with both stanton and douglas and you say it was her concernwith violence against black women that informed her intervention. does this come through in "vanguard" in terms of harpers concerns with sexual violence, extreme financial limitations which are kind of violence, or both? >> it's all of those things in harpers remarks at that meeting but the thread that runs through "vanguard" is one about sexual violence. violence including sexual violence for black women. one of the things i had never expected to discover was how, from the 1850s forward, all the way until the modern civil rights era, black women activists come to narrate their fears, their encounters, their experiences with sexual violence. this is nowhere else more acute than in the realm of the transportation, and frances harper talks that what it is like to be a black woman lecturer, and anti-slavery lecturer, writing street callers alone. nearly every woman i write about has a story about being accosted come about being denigrate come about being assaulted, and harper puts that on