I.The First Wave of the American Women's Movement Frederick Douglass(1818- 1895)was present at the convention.Born into slavery,douglass had taught himself to read and write,and now the editor of a weekly abolitionist paper,The North Star,and champion of full political rights for women,he stoutly defended a document drafted and read at the convention,The Seneca Falls Declaration. I. The First Wave of the American Women’s Movement Frederick Douglass (1818- 1895) was present at the convention. Born into slavery, Douglass had taught himself to read and write, and now the editor of a weekly abolitionist paper, The North Star, and champion of full political rights for women, he stoutly defended a document drafted and read at the convention, The Seneca Falls Declaration