Question

Compare the speeches by Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Candy Stanton, what sentiments did these speeches have in common?

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Both Frederick Douglass's speech and Elizabeth Candy Stanton's speech have a claiming tone. These discourses highlight the struggle for a social cause and demand that American society review its concepts, listen to them and allow its classes to escape the clutches of social oppression and attain the freedoms, rights and privileges to which they are deprived.

Douglass reinforces the need for racial equality within a society that preaches freedom and equality, but does not fulfill it in relation to blacks. Stanton, too, demands this position of society, but he does so by claiming gender equality and the fight for women's rights.