Observing woman’s agency, devotion, and efficiency in pleading the cause of the slave, gratitude for this high service early moved me to give favorable attention to the subject of what is called “Woman’s Rights,” and caused me to be denominated a woman’s-rights-man.
Douglass explains how women's dedication to the anti-slavery cause inspired his early support for women's rights.
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