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At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a womans rights conventionthe first ever held in the United Statesconvenes with almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. 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 womens rights movement in the United States.
In 1848, at Stantons home near Seneca Falls, the two women, working with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, sent out a call for a womens conference to be held at Seneca Falls. The announcement, published in the Seneca County Courier on July 14, read, A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July current; commencing at 10 oclock A.M. During the first day the meeting will be exclusively for women, who are earnestly invited to attend. The public generally are invited to be present on the second day, when Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia, and other ladies and gentlemen, will address the Convention.
On July 19, 200 women convened at the Wesleyan Chapel, and Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances, a treatise that she had drafted over the previous few days. Stantons declaration was modeled closely on the Declaration of Independence, and its preamble featured the proclamation, We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights The Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances then detailed the injustices inflicted upon women in the United States and called upon U.S. women to organize and petition for their rights.
On the second day of the convention, men were invited to intendand some 40 did, including the famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. That day, the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances was adopted and signed by the assembly. The convention also passed 12 resolutions11 unanimouslywhich called for specific equal rights for women. The ninth resolution, which declared it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise, was the only one to meet opposition. After a lengthy debate, in which Douglass sided with Stanton in arguing the importance of female enfranchisement, the resolution was passed. For proclaiming a womens right to vote, the Seneca Falls Convention was subjected to public ridicule, and some backers of womens rights withdrew their support. However, the resolution marked the beginning of the womens suffrage movement in America.
In 1848, at Stantons home near Seneca Falls, the two women, working with Martha Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt, sent out a call for a womens conference to be held at Seneca Falls. The announcement, published in the Seneca County Courier on July 14, read, A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel, at Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Wednesday and Thursday, the 19th and 20th of July current; commencing at 10 oclock A.M. During the first day the meeting will be exclusively for women, who are earnestly invited to attend. The public generally are invited to be present on the second day, when Lucretia Mott, of Philadelphia, and other ladies and gentlemen, will address the Convention.
On July 19, 200 women convened at the Wesleyan Chapel, and Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances, a treatise that she had drafted over the previous few days. Stantons declaration was modeled closely on the Declaration of Independence, and its preamble featured the proclamation, We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights The Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances then detailed the injustices inflicted upon women in the United States and called upon U.S. women to organize and petition for their rights.
On the second day of the convention, men were invited to intendand some 40 did, including the famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. That day, the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances was adopted and signed by the assembly. The convention also passed 12 resolutions11 unanimouslywhich called for specific equal rights for women. The ninth resolution, which declared it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise, was the only one to meet opposition. After a lengthy debate, in which Douglass sided with Stanton in arguing the importance of female enfranchisement, the resolution was passed. For proclaiming a womens right to vote, the Seneca Falls Convention was subjected to public ridicule, and some backers of womens rights withdrew their support. However, the resolution marked the beginning of the womens suffrage movement in America.
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MerryBlooms
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Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)1. K&R
MerryBlooms
(11,761 posts)2. Thanks, Solly Mack!
I got a chill reading through those names... I'm so grateful for their bravery and determination.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)3. This is important... K&R!