Frederick Douglass, shown in this c. 1880 photograph with his second wife, Helen, and sister-in-law, Eva Pitts, was already nationally known from his best-selling autobiography detailing his life in slavery when he spoke in support of women’s voting rights at the historic Seneca Falls convention in 1848. The motto of his newspaper, The North Star, affirmed that “Right Is of No Sex, Truth Is of No Color.” His last public appearance was before the National Council of Women in Washington in 1895; he died that evening, age 77.
Source photograph: National Park Service.
Date: c. 1880
Frederick Douglass, shown in this c. 1880 photograph with his second wife, Helen, and sister-in-law, Eva Pitts, was already nationally known from his best-selling autobiography detailing his life in slavery when he spoke in support of women’s voting rights at the historic Seneca Falls convention in 1848. The motto of his newspaper, The North Star, affirmed that “Right Is of No Sex, Truth Is of No Color.” His last public appearance was before the National Council of Women in Washington in 1895; he died that evening, age 77.
Source photograph: National Park Service.
Date: c. 1880