The Great "Human Rights" Movement

When Victoria Woodhull essentially nominated herself for President at the convention that she herself put together, she chose the escaped slave Frederick Douglass to be her running mate. Douglass was not consulted in the choice and neither affirmed nor rejected his nomination. This paper, nevertheless, seemed to delight in placing the two together in a racist image that also portrays a smoking Woodhull. The satire was part of an anti-feminist conception of the period that associated women voting with dissolute behavior.