Douglass denied any contradiction between women’s self-sacrifice and self-development

Evidence

70. Interestingly, at the women’s rights conference in Rochester, N.Y., in 1878, Elizabeth Cady Stanton advocated that women relinquish the attitude of self-sacrifice and cultivate self-development instead. Frederick Douglass noted at that time that self-sacrifice and self-development were not inconsistent with each other. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1408

Categorization

• XREF: Douglass’s both/and answer prefigures how black Baptist women held separateness and alliance — double consciousness — simultaneously, a thread the book has already established. — connects to: Abolitionism and proslavery theology shared a paternalist denial of Black self-determination — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 220; Enlightenment abolitionist thinkers were not antiracist or anticolonial

Broader Connections

• Abolitionism and proslavery theology shared a paternalist denial of Black self-determination #corroborates (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 220
• Enlightenment abolitionist thinkers were not antiracist or anticolonial #exemplifies (0.75)