Ladies and gentlemen, when invited some weeks ago to address you I proposed to a gentleman of this village to review our report of the Seneca Falls convention and give his objections to our Declaration, resolutions and p...
The convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two Quakers whose concern for women's rights was aroused when Mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London. The Seneca Falls meeting ...
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 ...
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’ The New York Herald published the entire text of the Seneca Falls Declaration, calling it ‘amusing,’ but conceding that Lucretia Mott would ‘make a better President than some of those who have lately tenanted the White House.’ The only major paper to treat the event seriously was ...
The Seneca Falls declaration was carefully patterned on the Declaration of Independence that had been crafted by the colonial revolutionaries. The declaration written primarily by Thomas Jefferson stated that all men are created equal. The Seneca Falls declaration held that "all men and women" are ...
Mott, Lucretia Coffin / Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Zusammenfassung Für die US-amerikanische Frauenbewegung des 19. Jh.s war diese Erklärung aus dem Jahr 1848 wegweisend. Es handelt sich um eine der ersten modernen Frauenrechtserklärungen...
DeclarationofSentiments (1848) SENECAFALLSCONVENTION JamesandLucretiaMott ElizabethCadyStantonin1848with twoofherthreesons MainPoint1 AllmenandWOMENarecreatedequal. •Weholdthesetruthstobeself-evident;that allmenandwomenarecreatedequal…” LucretiaMott(1842) ElizabethCady Stantonandher daughterHarriot. Main...
The text of resolution 8 also appears in a resolution written by Angelina Grimke, and introduced at the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Woman in 1837. More:Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention|Declaration of Sentiments| Seneca Falls Resolutions |Elizabeth Cady Stanton Speech "We Now Demand ...
Seneca Falls Convention was an assembly held on July 19–20, 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.