Should the vote come to Black men now, even if women must wait?
Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony
May 1869. The Fifteenth Amendment, which would bar denying the vote by race but not by sex, is before the states.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick DouglassEscaped enslaved man who became a prominent abolitionist1818–1895A lifelong supporter of women's suffrage who backs the amendment as it stands.
Their position, as they argued it
Yes: for Black men in the South the vote is a matter of life and death now, and women's turn must not block it.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. AnthonySuffrage leader who was arrested for voting in 18721820–1906Has worked beside Douglass for twenty years, and is about to found a women's suffrage association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Their position, as they argued it
No: she will not support an amendment that gives the vote to all men and leaves every woman out.
Where this is documented
Proceedings of the American Equal Rights Association annual meeting (May 1869)
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