The abolitionist movement and the feminist movement were both started in the 1800’s (“The Women’s Movement – Our History”)1 (McKivigan, “A Brief History of the American Abolitionist Movement”)2 and soon became the most prominent movements of not only their time, but all time. The two became somewhat intertwined while they grew and many prominent voices for the beginning of the feminist movement in 1848. While these two movements grew, their impact on the world would forever be remembered. As famous feminist and abolitionist Angelina Grimke once said, “We abolition women are turning the world upside down.”
The feminist movement initially grew out of the abolition movement (“Abolitionism and the Women’s Right Movement”)3. Both abolitionists and feminists – although the formal title “feminism” was not coined until the late 1890’s by Charles Fourier (“Feminism”, New World Encyclopedia”)4 – wanted to see the end of slavery of blacks for both men and women. The abolitionist…show more content… Douglass firmly believed that “Right is of no sex, truth is of no color,” (“Frederick Douglass”, NPS)8. Douglass displayed his support for the feminist movement on many occasions, the most important in 1848 when he attended the Seneca Falls Convention. It was in this convention that the historic document the “Declaration of Sentiments” came out, which commanded equal social status and legal rights for women (“Seneca Falls Convention…”, Wayne). Later, in 1866, he came together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and founded the American Equal Rights Association. Though the American Equal Rights Association disbanded three years later do to strains between the abolitionist and feminist movements and the 15th amendment, Douglass showed his support for equal rights for all until his death (“Frederick Douglass”,
