What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton want to accomplish at the Seneca Falls Convection on July 19 1848?
While on their honeymoon in England in 1840 the Stantons attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Elizabeth was appalled by the convention's male delegates who voted to prevent women from participating even if they had been appointed as delegates of their respective abolitionist societies. The men required the women to sit in a separate section hidden by curtains from the convention's proceedings. William Lloyd Garrison a prominent American abolitionist and supporter of women's right…
In the decades leading up to 1848 a small number of women began to push against restrictions imposed upon them by society. A few men aided in this effort. In 1831 Reverend Charles Grandison Finney began allowing women to pray aloud in gatherings of men and women. The Second Great Awakening was challenging women's traditional roles in religion. Recalling the era in 1870 Paulina Wright Davis set Finney's decision as the beginning of the American women's reform movement.
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The Declaration of Sentiments also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls New York the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention.The principal author of the Declaration was Elizabeth Cady Stanton ...
Mott and Stanton became friends there and agreed to organize a convention to further the cause of women's rights. It was not until the summer of 1848 that ...
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