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Frederick Douglass was a leading African American reformer who engaged himself in the emancipation of Southern slaves in the Ante-Bellum period and the elevation of freedmen in the Post-Bellum. He also devoted himself to the woman suffrage movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century. He often expressed gratitude for the women's contribution to the abolition of slavery and he thought the woman suffrage movement was but a continuance of the prewar antislavery movement. Douglass's thinking was based on the traditional human nature concept, in which the human rights were assumed to be given according to his or her nature. He supposed, on the other hand, that man and woman were different in nature and that man was endowed with strict, energetic and combative qualities while woman was given submissive, mild and pious instincts. During the several decades of his social activity, he continued to demand the equal rights of man and woman while asserting their natural difference. It was at the address delivered in Boston on 28 May 1888, one of his last addresses, that he demanded the equal rights of both sexes on the ground of their equal nature and, by doing so, completed his logical and ideological consistency.
2004-03-20