Given at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society days before the end of the Civil War, Douglass argues in favor of suffrage for Blacks, as well as equality, rather than generosity. <br /> <br />Douglass wants Blacks to be allowed to fail or succeed on their own. <br /> <br />He also points out the irony that Blacks have been considered citizens in time of war but aliens in time of peace.
