Equal Rights

In the late 1840's women and African Americans were trying to get equal rights. It seems natural for oppressed groups to come together since there is more power in numbers. Frederick Douglas' lecture is taken from a women's organization in Rochester called "Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society". The lecture was acknowledging the different groups in the anti slavery movement and how he felt there needed to be more energy in the anti slavery movement. The women held a convention in which the shared sentiments on what rights they should be entitled to. Frederick Douglas was one of the signatures in the Declaration of Sentiments.

People felt women and African Americans had their roles and should stick to it. Obviously these are wrong views and it was a long battle to change popular opinions. Equal rights for all Americans is what they were after and at the end succeeded.