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The monopoly on MONOPOLY

The New Bazaar

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Lizzie McGee's Game Wasn't Selling, Like Garrett Morgan's

Lizzie mcgee didn't have to fear being fire bombed like percy julian, or having her wares boycotted, like garrett morgan. She was frustrated at having her freedoms and opportunities constrained by her gender. A couple of years after patenting the landlord's game, she took out a newspaper advertisement offering herself for sale, young woman, rian slave. This stunt, shocking then and shocking now, was a way of satirizing the idea that marriage was the only option for a woman. We are not machines. But while it made a splash, this outrageous stunt did not seem to turn the tide, either for feminism or for lizziemcgee

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