Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Martha Coffin Wright, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Ernestine Rose, Angelina Grimké, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many, many other white women in the abolitionist movement in the 19th Century fought for black people to be free of slavery before they themselves could vote or own property, but whatever.