Frederick Douglass Declaration Of Sentiments Analysis

Have you ever thought something was not fair? Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton thought very strongly about what was not fair. Douglass thought slavery should not exist, while Stanton thought women were not treated equally. The text were “What to the slave is 4th of July?” by Frederick Douglass and “Declaration of Sentiments” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the same basic purpose of giving their respective speeches, and they accomplished their goal in very similar ways, including their use of references to important documents, their pursuit at credibility, and their attempt to take a stand against society. The two authors tied in important documents to their own text. The important document that Douglass referred to was the bible. He compared the slaves to the Jewish people, he said, “How can we sing the Lord’s song in a

Unlike Douglass, who mentioned the Bible, Stanton related to the Declaration of Independence. In the second paragraph Stanton says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal…” (295). This line is word for word from the Declaration of Independence, other than Stanton said both men and women, the Declaration of Independence said just men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted to get the message across that men need to be treated equal, but it is just as important to treat women with the same respect and to be equal. Stanton listed out a few other ways that women are not being treated equal. She uses the Declaration of Independence in lines 32-50 to compare the king to the men. In these lines she tells the listener how the men have more rights and are treated differently than the women. Also that the men are leaders of the women. Such as In the Declaration of Independence it is about how the king is the ruler and is treated more respectively than the lower class