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What the Black Man Wants and Speech to the First Women's Rights Convention

Anthony
January 10, 1999
Douglass & Stanton
Compare and contrast

‘What the Black Man Wants’ and ‘Speech to the First Women’s Rights Convention’ are two powerful speeches. They both rewrote the history books. They changed laws that were strong. They went against what was an unyielding government run by white men. I greatly admire these two speeches for that.
Fredrick Douglass was an extraordinarily strong man for standing up for what he thought was right. The tone of ‘What the Black Man Wants’ is not angry or annoyed, but demanding. Slavery lasted two-hundred forty-six years. Douglass delivered this speech in 1865, which was the year that the civil war ended, also freeing the slaves. Douglass believed that without the right to vote, he might as well be a slave. It may say that he is free in the constitution, but it doesn’t say he is free in society. They regard his liberty as a privilege not a right. Some people claimed that the black men should take one step at a time, slavery was just abolished, so they should wait a little bit to start pressing for suffrage. Douglass did not agree with these people. He thought that if it is their human right, then they should have it now. Some people asked, why would you want suffrage, many people got along without it, and women didn’t have it. Douglass answered these questions by saying basically two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because other people don’t have the freedom to vote, doesn’t mean that blacks should be deprived of their rights also. Douglass also said that it would educate his race. By not letting blacks vote, the white men are implying that blacks are not intelligent enough to make a public decision. And by implying this, the white men are proclaiming the black man’s inferiority to them. Douglass was not looking for sympathy, he was looking for simple justice. In Douglass’s metaphor about the apple, the tree represents society holding the apple (black man) up, where Douglass said to let them go and live their own lives. The only way for them to...

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