Analysis Of Fredrick Douglas´s Speech On Women's Suffrage

In April 1888, Fredrick Douglass gave a speech on women' suffrage to the International Council of Women in Washington D.C. In this speech Douglass mentions how women are not granted their rights and how it is a mistake. Even though women have got the right to vote their is still problems for women today in 2015. In a CNN article it says "Today, one in three Americans lives at or below the poverty line, and almost 70% are women and children. That's 42 million women inching along poverty's tightrope. The number of working poor struggling to lift themselves into the middle class is steadily increasing, with the worst poverty rates falling on black and Latina women." Even today women have to rely on something or someone to strive in life like
in the 1800's where women were thought of having to rely on a man to take care of them. In Douglass' speech he says "The women who have thus far carried on this agitation have already embodied and illustrated Theodore Parker’s three grades of human greatness" Douglass believes in the women that they can get their rights all by themselves.