(1848) SENECAFALLSCONVENTION JamesandLucretiaMott ElizabethCadyStantonin1848with twoofherthreesons MainPoint1 AllmenandWOMENarecreatedequal. •Weholdthesetruthstobeself-evident;that allmenandwomenarecreatedequal…” LucretiaMott(1842) ElizabethCady Stantonandher daughterHarriot. MainPoint2 Womenalsohavecer...
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched thewomen’s suffragemovement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote. ...
Elizabeth Cady StantonandLucretia Mottwrote the Declaration of Sentiments for theSeneca Falls Women's Rights Convention(1848) in upstate New York, deliberately modeling it on the 1776Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Sentiments was read by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, then each paragraph was ...
But it was not until an 1848 visit of Lucretia Mott with her sister, Martha Coffin Wright, during an annual Quaker convention, that the idea of a women's rights convention turned into plans, and Seneca Falls became a reality. The sisters met during that visit with three other women, Eliza...
The two feminist leaders had been excluded from participating in the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, an event that solidified their determination to engage in the struggle. Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments, a document set forth at the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848. Credit: ...
As women, Mott and Stanton were barred from the convention floor, and the common indignation that this aroused in both of them was the impetus for their founding of the women’s rights movement in the United States. In 1848, at Stanton’s home near Seneca Falls, the two women, working ...
Seneca Falls Convention summary: The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. Intended to cal...
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In the interim between the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention and the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed theDeclaration of Sentiments, a document declaring the rights of women modeled on theDeclaration of Independence. It is worth noting that upon showing her Declaration to...
on July 19, 1848 Seneca Falls convention Crowds gather in Seneca Falls, New York, for the opening of a two-day Women's Rights Convention, the first of its kind ever held in America. Prominent speak...