Frederick Douglass Supports Women's Suffrage at Seneca Falls

Frederick Douglass was the only prominent man to speak in favor of women's suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention, helping pass the Declaration of Sentiments' demand for the vote by a narrow margin. Douglass argued in The North Star that 'the power to choose rulers and make laws, was the right by which all others could be protected' — linking racial and gender justice as inseparable.