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It was reported that she had little sympathy for antislavery and "remained convinced till the end of her life that the solution to the problem of race was to ship the African-American population back to Africa." She was also anti feminism and she despised abolitionists.

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Gollaher, D. L. (1993). Dorothea Dix and the English origins of the American asylum movement. Canadian Review Of American Studies, 23(3), 149.

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Yes, Dorothea Lynde Dix was an outspoken opponent of slavery. She was also a strong advocate for social reform, particularly in the treatment of those with mental illness.

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