Statement regarding Frederick Douglass' marriage to Helen Pitts. * http://winningthevote.org/FDouglass.html
Western New York Suffragists: Frederick Douglass
Winning the Vote
2000
Rochester Regional Library Council
In defense of the right to...marry whom we please -- we might quote some of the basic principles of our government [and] suggest that in some things individual rights to tastes should control....If a good man from Maryland sees fit to marry a disenfranchised woman from New York, there should be no legal impediments to the union..
“If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 250.
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