White women already knew of their own sexist oppression before abolition work.

Evidence

Despite popular 19th century rhetoric, the notion that white women had to learn from their efforts to free the slave of their own limited rights is simply erroneous. No 19th century white woman could grow to maturity without an awareness of institutionalized sexism. White women did learn via their efforts to free the slave that white men were willing to advocate rights for blacks while denouncing rights for women. As a result of negative reaction to their reform activity and public effort to curtail and prevent their anti-slavery work, they were forced to acknowledge that without outspoken demands for equal rights with white men they might ultimately be lumped in the same social category with blacks—or even worse, black men might gain a higher social status than theirs. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 367

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• Awareness of sexist discrimination does not equal eliminating sexist oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Black women needed a separate feminist intellectual tradition (similarity 0.84)
• White women, not white men, were slavery’s most direct beneficiaries (similarity 0.83)
• The women’s movement failed to analyze black women’s sexist oppression (similarity 0.83)
• White abolitionists opposed slavery but never supported racial equality. (similarity 0.83)
• Enslaved women were no more sexually liberated than white women. (similarity 0.83)
• Adopting feminist rhetoric did not free white feminists from sexist-racist attitudes. (similarity 0.83)
• Early feminist demands centered primarily on women’s right to education. (similarity 0.82)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.82)
• Twentieth-century black women learned to accept sexism as natural fact (similarity 0.82)
• The already-liberated claim actually signals acceptance of sexism. (similarity 0.82)
• The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism. (similarity 0.81)
• White middle-class women are less oppressed than poor or black women (similarity 0.81)
• Understanding black women’s status requires analyzing race and sex together (similarity 0.81)
• Black women organized separately after white women’s racism barred them (similarity 0.81)