 
Together with abolitionist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Douglass
signed the Declaration of Sentiments that became the movement's manifesto. His
newspaper, the North Star masthead once read "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no
Color." A women's rights activist to the end, Douglass died in February 1895, having
just attended a Woman's Council meeting.
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he antislavery
crusade of the early nineteenth century served as a training ground for the women's suffrage
movement. Douglass actively supported the
women's rights movement, yet he believed black men should receive suffrage first.
Demonstrating his support for women's rights, Douglass participated in the first
feminist convention at Seneca Falls in July of 1848 where he
was largely responsible for passage of the motion to support female suffrage.
