There are many similarities between the abolitionist movement and the antebellum women rights. Both the Seneca Falls Declaration and Frederick Douglass speech talked about equality, either about slavery or about women. Both of these were talking about equality. The Speech and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, in 1848, related back to the Declaration of Independence. In the Seneca Falls Declaration it stated rights that were in the Declaration of Independence but also referred back to what they were saying in the rest of the Declaration. "We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal:" In the first sentence down it states rights. In Frederick Douglass speech, in 1852, he talked about the equal rights, he also talks about 4th of July, and how slaves don't have that opportunity because they are not free. "There are forces in operation, which must be inevitably, work the downfall of slavery." Which also relates back to equality for slaves and men and women. Everyone must recreated equal, both the speech and Seneca Declaration showed that!
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