Fred Douglass Tells Women's Convention that Republicans Should Not Drop "Manhood Suffrage" Nov. 1868

Pat Young

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On November 19, 1868 Frederick Douglass addressed the New England Women's Rights Convention in Boston. Douglass had attended the the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls and had advocated women's suffrage ever since.

At the 1868 Boston convention, led by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, a call had been made by Stone for the Republican Party to end its slogan of Universal Male Suffrage and replace it with Universal Suffrage. While there is no doubt Douglass supported women getting the right to vote, The country was only two months away from the introduction of the 15th Amendment and he was afraid that Black voting rights would be stalled over a discussion of voting rights for women.

In this thread I will offer some accounts of Douglass at the November 1868 Women's Convention. Feel free to discuss the more general issue of splitting the issue of the women's vote from that of the Black vote.
 
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