The Dissolution of the Equal Rights Association

Douglass was willing to accept this less than universal suffrage because he knew how much resistance there was to women's voting rights in much of the nation. He thought it was likely that the 15th amendment could only be ratified if it didn't include women. Those who supported the 15th Amendment formed the American Women's Suffrage Association. There was also explicit racism at work with Elizabeth Katie Stanton, for example, saying, quote, what will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to vote?